“His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.” Aeschylus

A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.
Fragment 392 (220 Smyth), from an unidentified play. Included in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- Intelligence
- Money
Time waxing old can many a lesson teach.
Prometheus Bound, line 981 (tr. E. H. Plumptre).
- Experience
- Time
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
Fragment 394 (222 Smyth), from an unidentified play. Included in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- Character
- Honor

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