ho, like the gnats, fly
towards every thing brilliant

Museum of Alexandria and the Library

Must take care not to poison the fishes
with it

Must--that word is a ploughshare which
suits only loose soil

Natural impulse which moves all old
women to favor lovers

Nature is sufficient for us

Never speaks a word too much or too
little

Never so clever as when we have to find
excuses for our own sins

Never to be astonished at anything

No judgment is so hard as that dealt by
a slave to slaves

No man is more than man, and many men
are less

No man was allowed to ask anything of
the gods for himself

No good excepting that from which we
expect the worst

No, she was not created to grow old

No happiness will thrive on bread and
water

No one we learn to hate more easily,
than the benefactor

No man gains profit by any experience
other than his own

No false comfort, no cloaking of the
truth

No one so self-confident and insolent
as just such an idiot

No virtue which can be owned like a
house or a steed

Nobody was allowed to be perfectly idle

None of us really know anything rightly

Not yet fairly come to the end of
yesterday

Nothing in life is either great or
small

Nothing is perfectly certain in this
world

Nothing permanent but change

Nothing so certain as that nothing is
certain

Nothing is more dangerous to love, than
a comfortable assurance

Numbers are the only certain things

Observe a due proportion in all things

Obstacles existed only to be removed

Obstinacy--which he liked to call firm
determination

Of two evils it is wise to choose the
lesser

Often happens that apparent superiority
does us damage

Old women grow like men, and old men
grow like women

Old age no longer forgets; it is youth
that has a short memory

Olympics--The first was fixed 776 B.C.

Omnipotent God, who had preferred his
race above all others

On with a new love when he had left the
third bridge behind him

Once laughed at a misfortune, its sting
loses its point

One falsehood usually entails another

One of those women who will not bear to
be withstood

One should give nothing up for lost
excepting the dead

One hand washes the other

One must enjoy the time while it is
here

One who stood in the sun must need cast
a shadow on other folks

One Head, instead of three, ruled the
Church

Only the choice between lying and
silence

Only two rem