The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third or shame, and the fourth for madness.
—Anacharsis
Topics: Drinking
Play so you may be serious.
—Anacharsis
Topics: Pleasure
Every man is his own chief enemy.
—Anacharsis
Topics: Danger
The tongue is, at the same time, the best part of man, and his worst: with good government, none is more useful; without it, none is more mischievous.
—Anacharsis
Play so that you may be serious.
—Anacharsis
A vine bears three grapes, the first of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, and the third of repentance.
—Anacharsis
Topics: Wine, Alcohol
Written laws are like spiders’ webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.
—Anacharsis
Topics: Lawyers, Law
These written laws are just like spiders’ webs; the small and feeble may be caught and entangled in them, but the rich and mighty force through and despise them.
—Anacharsis
Topics: Law
Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.
—Anacharsis
Topics: Argument
A man’s felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
—Anacharsis
Topics: Mind, Fortune
Every man is his own chief enemy.
—Anacharsis
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Thales of Miletus Greek Philosopher, Mathematician
- Heraclitus Ancient Greek Philosopher
- Bias of Priene Greek Orator
- Pythagoras Greek Philosopher
- Laozi Chinese Philosopher
- Epictetus Ancient Greek Philosopher
- Ludwig von Mises Austrian Economist
- Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi German Philosopher
- Baruch Spinoza Dutch Philosopher
- F. H. Bradley British Idealist Philosopher
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