Efesos, Turkey - 2006
1. “Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.”
2. “Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.”
3. ”A good scare is worth more than good advice.”
4. “A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness.”
5. “Anger is a short madness.”
6. “Be prepared to go mad with fixed rule and method.”
7. ”Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that Fortune grants.”
8. ”Cease your efforts to find where the last rose lingers.”
9. ”Dare to be wise.”
10. ”Despise not sweet inviting love-making nor the merry dance.”
11. ”Every man should measure himself by his own standard.”
12. ”Faults are committed within the walls of Troy and also without. [There is fault on both sides.]”
13. ”Fire, if neglected, will soon gain strength.”
14. ”Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.”
15. ”Grant me, sound of body and of mind, to pass an old age lacking neither honor nor the lyre.”
16. "He has half the deed done who has made a beginning."
17. “Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.”
18. “He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.”
19. ”He pulls down, he builds up, he changes squares into circles.”
20. “Here, or nowhere, is the thing we seek.”
21. “Hidden knowledge differs little from ignorance.”
22. ”If nothing is delightful without love and jokes, then live in love and jokes.”
23. ”If you name me among the lyric bards, I shall strike the stars with my exalted head.”
24. ”If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.”
25. ”In adversity remember to keep an even mind.”
26. ”I shall not wholly die.”
27. “It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original way.”
28. ”It is not the possessor of many things whom you will rightly call happy. The name of the happy man is claimed more justly by him who has learned the art whereby to use what the gods give, and who can endure the hardships of poverty, who dreads disgrace as something worse than death. He will not fear to die for the friend he loves, or for his country.”
29. “It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion.”
30. ”It is the mountaintop that the lightening strikes.”
31. ”It's sweet to be silly when the time's right.”
32. “It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.”
33. “Kings play the fool, and the people suffer for it.”
34. ”Leave all else to the gods.”
35. ”Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to the true.”
36. ”Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant.”
37. ”Never despair.”
38. ”No ascent is too steep for mortals. Heaven itself we seek in our folly.”
39. “Nothing is beautiful from every point of view.”
40. “Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.”
41. ”One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but in different directions.”
42. “One cannot know everything.”
43. ”Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.”
44. ”Rule your mind or it will rule you.”
45. “Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero!”
(Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!)
46. “Sapere aude” (Dare to be wise).
47. ”Sorrowful words become the sorrowful; angry words suit the passionate; light words a playful expression; serious words suit the grave.”
48. ”Taught or untaught, we all scribble poetry.”
49. ”Tear thyself from delay.”
50. ”The body loaded by the excess of yesterday, depresses the mind also, and fixes to the ground this particle of divine breath.”
51. ”The tendency of humanity is towards the forbidden.”
52. ”The higher the tower, the greater the fall thereof.”
53. “There are lessons to be learned from a stupid man.”
54. “The Sun, the stars and the seasons as they pass, some can gaze upon these with no strain of fear.”
55. ”They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with ships and carriages: the object of our search is present with us.”
56. “This used to be among my prayers - a piece of land not so very large, which would contain a garden, and near the house a spring of ever-flowing water, and beyond these a bit of wood.”
57. “Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendour.”
58. ”We are but dust and shadow.”
59. “We are dust and shadow.”
60. “Whatever advice you give, be brief.”
61. ”What forbids a man to speak the truth in a laughing way?”
62. ”What's well begun, is half done.”
63. “When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.”
64. “Who then is sane? He who is not a fool.”
65. ”Who lives in fear will never be a free man.”
66. ”Who then is free? The wise man, who is lord over himself, whom neither poverty, or death, nor bonds affright, who bravely defies his passions, and scorns ambition, who in himself is a whole, smoothed and rounded, so that nothing outside can rest on the polished surface, and against whom Fortune in her onset is ever defeated.”
67. ”With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.”
68. “Ye bright Mosaics! That with storied beauty,
The floor of Nature's temple tesselate,
What numerous emblems of instructive duty
Your forms create!”
69. “You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she still will hurry back.”
70. ”You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.”
71. “You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.”
