Post #3350

They tell of Themistocles, that when a certain man of high culture and eminent learning came to him and offered to instruct him in the art of memory... Themistocles replied that he would do him a much greater favor if he would teach him the art of forgetting; for I remember what I would not, and cannot forget what I would.
—Saying of Themistocles, as recorded by Cicero.

Post #3349

Sloth never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
—Miguel de Cervantes (translated from Don Quixote)

Post #3348

The man who first ruined the Roman people was he who first gave them treats and gratuities.
—Life of Coriolanus (Plutarch quotes it as "a shrewd remark, whoever it was that said it")

Post #3347

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
—Leonardo da Vinci

Post #3346

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
—Socrates