Wise men are able to make a fitting use even of their enmities.
Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
When men are arrived at the goal, they should not turn back.
Since, during storms, flames leap from the humid vapors and dark clouds emit deafening noises, is it surprising the lightning, when it strikes the ground, gives rise to truffles, which do not resemble plants?
Mothers ought to bring up and nurse their own children; for they bring them up with greater affection and with greater anxiety, as loving them from the heart, and so to speak, every inch of them.
Beauty is the flower of virtue.
Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.
What All The World Knows Water is the principle, or the element, of things. All things are water.
As those that pull down private houses adjoining to the temples of the gods, prop up such parts as are contiguous to them; so, in undermining bashfulness, due regard is to be had to adjacent modesty, good-nature and humanity.
An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.
The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must be as formidable as possible, the second as pleasant as possible, to the participants.
The measure of a man’s life is the well spending of it, and not the length.
There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice.
Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.
Custom is almost a second nature.
We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature.
It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.
Apothegms are the most infallible mirror to represent a man truly what he is.
It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.
Antisthenes says that in a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered, and after some time then thaw and become audible, so that words spoken in winter go unheard until the next summer.