Historical literatureHope is a waking dream.AristotleDiogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers · 240★ 8.1
Letter · Religious literatureThere cannot be salvation for any, except in the Church.St. Cyprian256★ 7.3
Historical literatureDo not speak ill of the dead.ChilonDiogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers · 240★ 7.2
Historical literatureHaving the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.SocratesDiogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers · 240★ 5.7
Historical literatureLiars when they speak the truth are not believed.AristotleDiogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers · 240★ 4.9
Historical literatureWe should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.AristotleDiogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers · 240★ 4.0
Historical literatureIn truth we know nothing, for truth lies in the depth.DemocritusDiogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers · 240★ 3.9
Religious literatureHe cannot have God for his father who has not the church for his mother.St. Cyprian251★ 3.9
Religious literatureIt is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.TertullianAd Scapulam · 217★ 3.8
Philosophical literatureDeath, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are death is not come, and when death is come, we are not.EpicurusDiogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers · 240★ 3.8
Historical literatureBeauty is a gift of God.AristotleDiogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers · 240★ 2.4
Historical literaturePleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.EpicurusDiogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers · 240★ 2.2
Religious literatureIt is to believed because it is absurd.TertullianOn the Flesh of Christ · 206★ 2.1
Philosophical literatureOf all the means which wisdom acquires to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is friendship.EpicurusDiogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers · 240★ 2.1
Historical literatureTime is the most valuable thing a man can spend.TheophrastusDiogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers · 240★ 2.1
Philosophical literatureOne principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.PlotinusEnneads · 270★ 2.1
Historical literatureThere is a written and an unwritten law. The one by which we regulate our constitutions in our cities is the written law; that which arises from custom is the unwritten law.Diogenes LaertiusThe Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers · 240★ 2.0
Historical literatureIt is impossible to live pleasurably without living wisely, well, and justly, and impossible to live wisely, well and justly without living pleasurably.EpicurusDiogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers · 240★ 2.0
Historical literatureOld age is the harbor of all ills.Bion of BorysthenesDiogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers · 240★ 1.3
Philosophical literatureAll things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.PlotinusEnneads · 270★ 1.3
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