Counsel in trouble gives small comfort when help is past remedy.
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
Antipater uses us favourably if he looks upon us as staves, but very hardly if he considers us as freemen.
Geometry is one of the handles of science and philosophy.
An ambassador should study the welfare of his country, and not spend his time in feasting and riot.
One may as well go, as look into another man’s house; because the eye may reach what the hand cannot.
Tragedy when ridiculed by comedy does not condescend a reply.
Each man’s soul is his genius.
If the ox could think, it would attribute oxality to God.
Happiness is the possession of the excellence proper to us, and of the power subservient to it.