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• Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.
  -- Athenaeus (c. 200 AD) -- The Deipnosophists, xiv, 6...
• On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a wine-cooler, and said that it was sixteen years old.
  It is very small for its age," said Gnathaena. -- Athenaeus (c....
• Dorion, ridiculing the description of a tempest in the "Nautilus" of Timotheus, said that he had seen a more formidable storm in a boiling saucepan.
  -- Athenaeus (c. 200 AD) -- The Deipnosophists, viii, 19...
• It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that "Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertai
  have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had,--being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity....
• The chief good is the suspension of the judgment, which tranquillity of mind follows like its shadow.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Pyrrho, xi...
• Another was, "Watch your opportunity." -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Pittacus, vii
• To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, vii, 11...
• They say that the first inclination which an animal has is to protect itself.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Zeno, lii...
• Alcaeus mentions Aristodemus in these lines:-- 'T is money makes the ma
  and he who 's none Is counted neither good nor honourable....