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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c05fd4c | Alexander was wont to say, "Were I not Alexander, I would be Diogenes." | Plutarch | ||
| 59c2e21 | Like watermen, who look astern while they row the boat ahead. | Plutarch | ||
| dc0506c | Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. | Plutarch | ||
| 2873844 | Athenodorus says hydrophobia, or water-dread, was first discovered in the time of Asclepiades. | Plutarch | ||
| 6b6336b | The great god Pan is dead. | Plutarch | ||
| b7c0f52 | I am whatever was, or is, or will be; and my veil no mortal ever took up. | Plutarch | ||
| 9cf3e9d | There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice. | Plutarch | ||
| 115d8b9 | It is a difficult thing for a man to resist the natural necessity of mortal passions. | Plutarch | ||
| 8c98d2b | We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against Nature. | Plutarch | ||
| 452bfe1 | Xenophon says that there is no sound more pleasing than one's own praises. | Plutarch | ||
| 600af39 | The general himself ought to be such a one as can at the same time see both forward and backward. | Plutarch | ||
| 74383fe | Cato said, "I had rather men should ask why my statue is not set up, than why it is." | Plutarch | ||
| 242b57a | Simonides calls painting silent poetry, and poetry speaking painting. | Plutarch | ||
| 5c5bf02 | As Meander says, "For our mind is God;" and as Heraclitus, "Man's genius is a deity." | Plutarch | ||
| a69de1b | Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world. | Plutarch | ||
| 10c5e64 | The victory over all the afflictions that befall you, is, to keep silence." | Poemen | ||
| 4e48ce1 | Even if a man were to make a new heaven and earth, he could not live free of care." | Poemen | ||
| a183e78 | Do not give your heart to that which does not satisfy your heart." | Poemen | ||
| 455a8eb | If you take little account of yourself, you will have peace, wherever you live." | Poemen | ||
| 29caa2c | If you are silent, you will have peace wherever you live." | Poemen | ||
| 5deea49 | He also said concerning Abba Pior that every day he made a new beginning. | Poemen | ||
| 2cff3fd | Abba Poemen said, "If I am in a place where there are enemies, I become a soldier." | Poemen | ||
| 57b7234 | What's one man's poison, signior,Is another's meat or drink. | Poison | ||
| 656104d | Better be poisoned in one's own blood then to be poisoned in one's principle. | Poison | ||
| de5d6b6 | Son, I don't have money even to buy poison. Please help - | Poison | ||
| 3a58848 | I'm poly, bi and kinky and I still won't sleep with you! | Polyamory | ||
| 2f8463d | All things are poison and nothing is without poison; only the dose makes a thing not a poison. | Poison | ||
| 4821733 | The man recover'd of the bite, The dog it was that died. | Poison | ||
| d1fbaaa | It's better to have lost at loveThan never to have loved at all. | Poison (American band) | ||
| c28a6f2 | Losing feels insignificant if you look up at the big sky! | Pokémon Gold and Silver | ||
| 4991d89 | Everything I did, I did for my country. | Pol Pot | ||
| 7073a41 | What to See in PolandThey have some really sharp tractors. | Poland | ||
| 245b422 | Poland has been a source of trouble for over five hundred years. | Poland | ||
| 46e1c68 | With respect to us, Poland might be, in fact, considered as a country in the moon. | Poland | ||
| bca3e98 | They told me to get down on the ground | Police | ||
| c04c49e | Like AEsop's fox, when he had lost his tail, would have all his fellow foxes cut off theirs. | Policy | ||
| 1f98b56 | Don't throw a monkey-wrench into the machinery. | Policy | ||
| d343eeb | Policy doesn't advance in a vacuum. | Policy | ||
| 3f1be8b | It's a bad idea to continue a policy that isn't working. | Policy | ||
| 73aa2e4 | We shall not I believe, be obliged to alter our policy of watchful waiting. | Policy | ||
| 60c0ea2 | We have stood apart, studiously neutral. | Policy | ||
| 5cba72f | Upholding human rights should underpin all policymaking. | Policy | ||
| 69c09e7 | Masterly inactivity. | Policy | ||
| faf5e91 | The publick weal requires that a man should betray, and lye, and massacre. | Policy |