Athenaeus famous quotes

03-25-2025

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.
-- Athenaeus

#Greatness #Doe #Goodness
Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.
-- Athenaeus

#Principles #Investigation #Stomach
the Egyptians became fond of wine and bibulous; and so a way was found among them to help those who could not afford wine, namely, to drink that made from barley; they who took it were so elated that they sang, danced, and acted in every way like persons filled with wine.
-- Athenaeus

#Wine #Way #Helping
On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a [glass], and said that it was sixteen years old. 'It is very small for its age,' said Gnathaena.
-- Athenaeus

#Wine #Glasses #Years
It is the mark of a gentleman to be moderate in the use of wine.
-- Athenaeus

#Wine #Gentleman #Use
It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that "Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had, - being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity."
-- Athenaeus

#Men #Sake #Losing
Fasting cures diseases, dries up bodily humors, puts demons to flight, gets rid of impure thoughts, makes the mind clearer and the heart purer, the body sanctified, and raises man to the throne of God.
-- Athenaeus

#Heart #Men #Mind
I have heard a greater storm in a boiling pot.
-- Athenaeus

#Storm #Pot #Heard
Whoever gulps down wine as a horse gulps down water is called a Scythian.
-- Athenaeus

#Horse #Wine #Water

A good character today is shaped by greatness, greatness in vision, greatness in courage, greatness in insight, greatness in purpose and devotion.
You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry
Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition... and also read those whose darkness or malice or madness or greatness you can't understand because only in this way will you grow, outlive yourself, and become what you are.
Under the guidance of the Reich, Europe would speedily have become unified. Once the Jewish poison had been eradicated, unification would have been an easy matter. France and Italy, each defeated in turn at an interval of a few months by the two Germanic Powers, would have been well out of it. Both would have had to renounce their inappropriate aspirations to greatness. At the same time they would have had to renounce their pretensions in North Africa and the Near East; and that would have allowed Europe to pursue a bold policy of friendship towards Islam. (4th February 1945)
I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.
There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.
Let's stop somebody from doing something! Everybody does too much.
Love reacts with goodness towards those who ill-treat it.
I do believe that God is with us even when we're at our craziest and that this goodness guides, provides, and protects.
"Why is everyone here so happy except me?" "Because they have learned to see goodness and beauty everywhere," said the Master. "Why don't I see goodness and beauty everywhere?" "Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside."

Athenaeus famous quotes

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