Famous Sayings and Their Authors: A Collection of Historical Sayings in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, and Latin |
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... ( Plutarch , Lives : Alcibiades , ix ) . Γλώττης κρατεῖν , καὶ μάλιστα ἐν ovμжooi . ( Rule your tongue , especially at a feast ) . CHILO ( d . B.C. 597 ) - ( Diogenes Laertius , Lives : Chilo , § 69 ) . Tvôli σavтby . ( Know thyself ) ...
... ( Plutarch , Lives : Alcibiades , ix ) . Γλώττης κρατεῖν , καὶ μάλιστα ἐν ovμжooi . ( Rule your tongue , especially at a feast ) . CHILO ( d . B.C. 597 ) - ( Diogenes Laertius , Lives : Chilo , § 69 ) . Tvôli σavтby . ( Know thyself ) ...
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... Plutarch , Lives : Caesar , xi ) . Cf. Tel brille au second rang qui s'éclipse au premier . ( One shines in the second rank who is outshone in the first ) .- Voltaire , La Henriade , Chant i . " Enoav . ( They have lived ) . CICERO ...
... Plutarch , Lives : Caesar , xi ) . Cf. Tel brille au second rang qui s'éclipse au premier . ( One shines in the second rank who is outshone in the first ) .- Voltaire , La Henriade , Chant i . " Enoav . ( They have lived ) . CICERO ...
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... ( Plutarch , Lives : Pelopidas , 10 ) . Εἷς οἰωνὸς ἄριστος ἀμύνεσθαι περὶ Πύρρου . ( The best of omens is king Pyrrhus ' cause ) . to PYRRHUS ( 318-272 B.C. ) in reply to a remark by Lysimachus , who regarded Pyrrhus ' dream as Sparta as ...
... ( Plutarch , Lives : Pelopidas , 10 ) . Εἷς οἰωνὸς ἄριστος ἀμύνεσθαι περὶ Πύρρου . ( The best of omens is king Pyrrhus ' cause ) . to PYRRHUS ( 318-272 B.C. ) in reply to a remark by Lysimachus , who regarded Pyrrhus ' dream as Sparta as ...
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... ( Plutarch , Lives : Demosthenes , xi ) . Ἐμοῦ δὲ ἐρωτῶν βούλομαι μᾶλλον τοὺς ἀνθρώπους , διὰ τί ἀνδριὰς οὐ κεῖται Κάτωνος ἢ διὰ τί κεῖται . I would much rather that men should ask why I have no statue than why I have one ) . CATO MAJOR ...
... ( Plutarch , Lives : Demosthenes , xi ) . Ἐμοῦ δὲ ἐρωτῶν βούλομαι μᾶλλον τοὺς ἀνθρώπους , διὰ τί ἀνδριὰς οὐ κεῖται Κάτωνος ἢ διὰ τί κεῖται . I would much rather that men should ask why I have no statue than why I have one ) . CATO MAJOR ...
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... ( Plutarch , Lives : Alexander , xxix ) . . . καθεύδειν αὐτὸν οὐκ ἐῴη τὸ τοῦ Μιλτιάδου τρόπαιον . ( .. the trophy of Miltiades would not let him sleep ) . THEMISTOCLES ( 514-449 B.C . ) —— when asked the cause of his reserve and his ...
... ( Plutarch , Lives : Alexander , xxix ) . . . καθεύδειν αὐτὸν οὐκ ἐῴη τὸ τοῦ Μιλτιάδου τρόπαιον . ( .. the trophy of Miltiades would not let him sleep ) . THEMISTOCLES ( 514-449 B.C . ) —— when asked the cause of his reserve and his ...
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ABBÉ alluding asked Attributed battle BENJAMIN DISRAELI Earl bien Biog c'est Cæsar CARDINAL Chamber of Deputies Charles COMTE death Dict Dieu Diogenes Laertius DUKE OF WELLINGTON Dying words Earl of Beaconsfield EDMUND BURKE Emperor enemy Engl England fait faut femme Français France French grand HENRY Hist homme honour House of Commons Hume j'ai jamais JOHN June king Last words Le Moniteur universel letter liberty Lives Lord LOUIS XIV Madam Mémoires MIRABEAU Molière Moniteur mort mourir n'est NAPOLEON nation never Paris Parliament Phocion phrase Plutarch PRESIDENT PRINCE BISMARCK Prussian qu'il qu'on Queen quoted referring Reichstag remark reply rien saying Sire soldiers speech Suetonius thou tion tout Voltaire W. E. GLADSTONE WELLINGTON 1769 WILLIAM γὰρ δὲ καὶ μὲν μὴ οὐ οὐκ τὴν τὸ Τὸν τοὺς