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Athenaeus Quotes

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

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

Athenaeus
Inspirational, Wisdom, Greatness
Athenaeus (1854). “The Deipnosophists Or Banquet of the Learned of Athenaeus: With an Appendix of Poetical Fragments, Rendered Into English Verse by Various Authors and a General Index : in Three Volumes”, p.1003

Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.

Athenaeus
Nature, Principles, Investigation
Athenaeus (1854). “The Deipnosophists Or Banquet of the Learned of Athenaeus: With an Appendix of Poetical Fragments, Rendered Into English Verse by Various Authors and a General Index : in Three Volumes”, p.439

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

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
Athenaeus (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Athenaeus (Illustrated)”, p.471, Delphi Classics

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

Whoever gulps down wine as a horse gulps down water is called a Scythian.

Athenaeus
Horse, Wine, Water

I have heard a greater storm in a boiling pot.

Athenaeus
Storm, Pot, Heard
"Atheneaus, 'Deipnosophistæ', VIII, 19". Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations V2: Drawn From The Speech And Literature Of All Nations, Ancient And Modern (1922), Book by Kate Louise Roberts, 2010.

'It is very small for its age,' said Gnathaena.

Athenaeus
Food, Cooking, Age

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
Athenaeus (of Naucratis.), Charles Burton Gulick (1969). “The Deipnosophists”, Harvard Univ Pr

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