Congrats! You're a loser.

 

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"By not saying anything, you're saying something."
- Plato, circa 4th century BCE

against unworthy triviality

 

"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters."

- Epictetus [55-135 CE]

the ancients procrastinated too

"Well begun is half done."

- Aristotle [384BCE-322BCE]

music in Ancient Rome

 

measured comic motion

“Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.”
- Issac Newton [1643 - 1727]

platonic

"Never forgive a friend who betrayed you once - he will betray you again."
- Plato [c. 428 BCE- 348 BCE]

Athenian comedian

"Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever."

- Aristophanes [c. 446 BCE –  c. 386 BCE]

canon of body proportions

 

Polykleitos [5th century BCE]. Alongside the Athenian sculptors Pheidias, Myron and Praxiteles, he is considered one of the most important sculptors of classical antiquity.

storyteller

"Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.”

- Aesop [c. 620–564 BCE]

fable

"Every man carries two bags about him, one in front and one behind, and both are full of faults. The bag in front contains his neighbors' faults, the one behind his own. Hence it is that men do not see their own faults, but never fail to see those of others."
— Aesop [c. 620-584 BCE]

First scientist

Thales of Miletus, [c. 624–620 BCE — c. 548–545 BCE] used a scientific method which didn't resort to mystical or mythological explanations, but he did believe that the Earth was a flat disk floating on a vast sea.

paradoxical philosopher

“There is nothing permanent except change.”

– Heraclitus [535 BCE - 475 BCE] 

Philosophers

"Look at the bad stuff and see if it can be survived."
- Stoicism: the endurance of pain or hardship without the display of feelings and without complaint.

Athenian

“Do not consider painful what is good for you.”
– Euripides [480 - 406 BCE]

Themistocles

first self-made man

"I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man."

- Themistocles [c.524 BCE - 459 BCE]

father of geometry

"QED - Quod erat demonstrandum"
- Euclid [Mid-4th century - Mid-5th century BCE]

father of engineering

“Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.” 

- Archimedes [c. 287 – c. 212 BCE]

father of Athens

"Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones."
- Pericles [c. 495 – 429 BCE]