Alan Vinegrad Quotes

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.

He has the most who is most content with the least.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.

Stand a little less between me and the sun.

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.

The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.

Most men are within a finger`s breadth of being mad.

Blushing is the color of virtue.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.

I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.

Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.

I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.