Philemon Quotes

Temperate anger well becomes the wise.

Does man differ from the other animals? Only in posture. The rest are bent, but he is a wild beast who walks upright.

In this thing one man is superior to another, that he is better able to bear adversity and prosperity.

Grief, like a tree, has tears for its fruit.

Look around you: there is not a doctor who desires the health of his friends, not a soldier who desires peace for his country.

A farmer is always going to be rich next year.

A field is the most just possession for men. For what nature requires it carefully bears: barley, oil, wine, figs, honey. Silver-plate and purple will do for the tragedians, not for life.

A just man is not one who does no ill, But he, who with the power, has not the will.

It is easy for men to give advice, but difficult for one's self to follow; we have an example in physicians: for their patients they order a strict regime, for themselves, on going to bed, they do all that they have forbidden to others.

Only the doctor and the judge have the right to inflict the death penalty without receiving the same.

We are all crazy when we are angry.