Quotes by Antiphanes


Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.
– Antiphanes
A man can hide all things, excepting twain - That he is drunk, and that he is in love.
– Antiphanes
Be not grieved above measure for thy deceased friends. They are not dead, but have only finished the journey which it is necessary for every one of us to take. We ourselves must go to hat great place of reception in which they are all of them assembled, and, in this general rendezvous of mankind, live together in another state of being.
– Antiphanes
Everything yields to diligence.
– Antiphanes
Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it.
– Antiphanes
The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong.
– Antiphanes