—Æsop.
Æsop, a famous Greek fabulist, lived in the seventh century, B.C.
Procure not friends in haste, and when thou hast a friend part not with him in haste.
—Solon.
Solon, the renowned Athenian legislator, lived about 638-559 B.C. The constitution which he gave to Athens, made him famous.
What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon also be beautiful.
—Sappho.
Sappho, a celebrated Greek poet, was born in the Island of Lesbos, about 612 B.C. Little is known of her life. Only fragments of her poems remain. We have in complete form a “Hymn to Aphrodite” and an “Ode to a Beautiful Girl.”
Wine is wont to show the mind of man.
“Maxims,” Line 500,—Theognis.