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Ibycus ~ Iphicrate Quotations

My family begins with me, your family ends with you.

Iphicrates

Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box

Italian Proverb

My family history begins with me, but yours ends with you.

Iphicrates

All limits are self imposed.

Icarus

My nobility begins in me, but yours ends in you.

Iphicrates

An Argument needs no reason; Nor any friendship.

Ibycus

Contests allow no excuses, no more do friendships.

Ibycus

In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the Sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.

Idiamin

Contests allow no excuses, no more do friendships.

Ibycus

To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.

Ali Ibn-Abi-Talib

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

Horace

Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.

Horace

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

Horace

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Don't just think, do.

Horace

Hidden knowledge differs little from ignorance.

Horace

Be modest in speech, but excel in action.

Horace

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

Homer

Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Homer

Better to flee from death than feel its grip.

Homer

The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.

Homer

Each man delights in the work that suits him best.

Homer

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.

Homer

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All limits are self imposed.

Icarus

Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves.

Italian Proverb

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Italian Proverb

Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

Homer

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

Homer

When you have well thought out your subject, words will come spontaneously.

Horace
May there always be work for your hands to do, May your purse always hold a coin or two. May the sun always shine warm on your windowpane, May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain. May the hand of a friend always be near you, And may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.
May the sun always shine on your windowpane; May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain; May the hand of a friend always be near you; May God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.
I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.
The common people are but ill judges of a man's merits; they are slaves to fame, and their eyes are dazzled with the pomp of titles and large retinue. No wonder, then, that they bestow their honors on those who least deserve them.
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
It's disgraceful how these humans blame the gods. They say their tribulations come from us, when they themselves, through their own foolishness, bring hardships which are not decreed by Fate.

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