Aglaion Quotes & Sayings

The story is, that Leontius, the son of Aglaion, coming up one day from the Piraeus, under the north wall on the outside, observed some dead bodies lying on the ground at the place of execution. He felt a desire to see them, and also a dread and abhorrence of them; for a time he struggled and covered his eyes, but at length the desire got the better of him; and forcing them open, he ran up to the dead bodies, saying, Look, ye wretches, take your fill of the fair sight. — Plato

To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty; and to take that for current pay which is under a man's value, is pusillanimity and cowardice. — Michel De Montaigne

You will never reach your dreams without honoring others along the way. — John Paul Warren

I like to call up ghosts of things past for myself when I'm working a lot. — Ben Mendelsohn

The key to success is to risk thinking unconventional thoughts. Convention is the enemy of progress. — Trevor Baylis

We may be annihilated, but we cannot be conquered. — Albert Sidney Johnston

The wages of sin are an expensive infection. — Elvis Costello

Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place. — Desiderius Erasmus

She is accustomed to studying faces. Usually what she seeks in them is inspiration. Today she looks for signs of malice and treachery. — Glenn Haybittle

Love doesn't please itself by seeking revenge. Love sacrifices itself for the good of others. — Kerrelyn Sparks

Like Raphael's Seven," Izak continued, aching hope in his expression. "You're a consort. Elijah's consort has a Guard." Elena didn't know what she would do with a Guard, but saying no to this fragile, broken, hopeful boy was out of the question. "Consider yourself the first member." His smile lit up the whole room. — Nalini Singh

Ah, the world was ever so. How sad are heroes when their tasks are done ... — Michael Moorcock

On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore. — Alexander Pope