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Sirach 51. Do our work before the time, and he will give your reward in his time.

Basil. For that which is acquired with toil is received with great joy, and is guarded with love of labor. But of those things for which the acquisition is easy, the possession of them is easily despised.

What good thing is easy? Who has set up a trophy while sleeping? Who, while living in luxury and charmed by flutes, has been adorned with the crowns of piety? No one who has not run has taken the prize. Toils beget glory, labors procure crowns.

The Theologian. Philosophy is made nobler from suffering, just as iron by the cold, so it is tempered by dangers.

Chrysostom. Everywhere useful things are wont to come to men through difficulty and toils.

Philo's. He who flees toil, flees good things; but he who endures patiently and bravely things hard to bear, hastens toward blessedness.

Isocr. Train yourself in voluntary toils, so that you may seem to endure also the involuntary ones.

Carcin. No one has acquired praise by pleasures; No lazy man is of good repute; But toils give birth to manliness.

Philisc. It is not possible, O foolish one, with ease, for those who have not toiled, the things of those who toil

to receive.

Evagrius's. It is absurd for one pursuing honors, to flee the toils, through which come the honors.

Plut. Just as an instrument becomes sweet when it receives relaxation and tension, so also does a life.

Nicias's. This man was so fond of labor, that he often asked his servants if he had bathed, or if he had eaten breakfast.

Archimed. The servants, tearing Archimedes by force away from the tablet he was bent over, took him; but he, even on his anointed body, would draw the figures.

(892) Demosth. Having been asked by someone, How he became superior in rhetoric, he said, "By spending more oil than wine."

From Democritus and Isocrates. Train the body with toils, and the soul to nobly endure dangers.

The same, having been asked by someone, in what way the industrious differ from the lazy, said, "As the pious from the impious, in good hopes."

The same, seeing an industrious young man, said, "You are preparing a most excellent relish for your old age."

Democrit. Voluntary toils make the endurance of involuntary ones lighter.

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Σιράχ να´. Ἐργάζεσθε τό ἔργον ἡμῶν πρό καιροῦ, καί δώσει τόν μισθόν ὑμῶν ἐν καιρῷ αὐτοῦ.

Βασιλ. Τό γάρ πόνῳ κτηθέν περιχαρῶς ὑπεδέχθη, καί φιλοπόνως διεφυλάχθη. Ὧν μέντοι πρόχειρος ὁ πορισμός, τούτων ἡ κτῆσις εὐκαταφρόνητος.

Τί τῶν ἀγαθῶν εὔκολον; Τίς καθεύδων τρόπαιον ἔστησε; Τίς τρυφῶν καί καταυλούμενος τοῖς τῆς εὐσεβείας στεφάνοις κατεκοσμήθη; Οὐδείς μή δραμών ἀνείλετο βραβεῖον. Πόνοι γεννῶσι δόξαν, κάματοι προξενοῦσι στεφάνους.

Θεολ. Γενναιότερον ἐκ τοῦ παθεῖν τό φιλόσοφον, ὥσπερ ψυχρῷ σίδηρος, οὕτω τοῖς κινδύνοις στομούμενον.

Χρυσόστ. Πανταχοῦ διά δισκολίας καί πόνων τοῖς ἀνθρώποις πέφυκε τά χρήσιμα παραγίνεσθαι.

Φίλωνος. Ὁ μέν τόν πόνον φεύγων, φεύγει τά ἀγαθά· ὁ δέ τλητικῶς καί ἀνδρείως ὑπομένων τά δυσκαρτέρητα, σπεύδει πρός μακαριότητα.

Ἰσοκρ. Γύμναζε σαυτόν πόνοις ἑκουσίοις, ἵνα δόξῃς καί τούς ἀκουσίους ὑπομένειν.

Καρκίν. Οὐδείς ἔπαινον ἡδοναῖς ἐκτήσατο· Οὐδείς ῥάθυμος εὐκλεής ἀνήρ· Ἀλλ᾿ οἱ πόνοι τίκτουσι τήν εὐανδρίαν.

Φιλίσκ. Οὐκ ἔστιν, ὦ μάταιε, σύν ῥᾳθυμίᾳ τά τῶν πονούντων μή πονήσαντας

λαβεῖν.

Εὐαγρίου. Ἄτοπόν ἐστιν διώκοντα τάς τιμάς, φεύγειν τούς πόνους, δι᾿ ὧν αἱ τιμαί.

Πλουτ. Ὥσπερ ὄργανον ἄνεσιν καί ἐπίτασιν λαμβάνον ἡδύ γίνεται, οὕτω καί βίος.

Νικίου. Οὗτος φιλόπονος ἦν, ὥστε πολλάκις ἐρωτᾷν τούς οἰκέτας εἰ λέλουται, ἤ εἰ ἠρίστηκεν.

Ἀρχιμήδ. Ἀρχιμήδην τῇ σανίδι προσκείμενον ἀποσπῶντες βίᾳ οἱ θεράποντες, εἴληφον· ὁ δέ, καί ἐπί τοῦ σώματος ἀληλιμμένου διέγραφε τά σχήματα.

(892) ∆ημοσθ. Ἐρωτηθείς ὑπό τινος, Πῶς τῆς ῥητορικῆς περιεγένετο, ἔφη, Πλέον ἔλαιον οἴνου δαπανήσας.

Ἐκ τῶν ∆ημοκρίτ. καί Ἰσοκράτ΄ . Γύμναζε τοῖς μέν πόνοις, τό σῶμα, τήν δέ ψυχήν γενναίως ὑπομένειν τούς κινδύνους.

Ὁ αὐτός ἐρωτηθείς ὑπό τινος, τίνι οἱ φιλόπονοι τῶν ῥᾳθύμων διαφέρουσιν, εἶπεν, ὡς οἱ εὐσεβεῖς τῶν ἀσεβῶν, ἐλπίσιν ἀγαθαῖς.

Ὁ αὐτός ἰδών νεανίαν φιλοπονοῦντα, ἔφη, Κάλλιστον ὄψον τῷ γήρατι ἀρτύεις.

∆ημοκρίτ. Οἱ ἑκούσιοι πόνοι, τήν τῶν ἀκουσίων ὑπομονήν ἐλαφροτέραν παρασκευάζουσιν.