Whetstones are not themselves able to cut, but make iron sharp and capable of cutting..

If all who are engaged in the profession of education were willing to state the facts instead of making greater promises than they can possibly fulfi….

It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement. Remember that there is nothing s….

Be gracious to all men, but choose the best to be your friends..

I maintain, then, that we should make peace, not only with the Chians, the Rhodians, the Byzantines and the Coans, but with all mankind..

If you be a lover of instruction, you will be well instructed..

Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with ease what others have found o….

Regard as your most faithful friends, not those who praise everything you say or do, but those who criticize your mistakes..

But I marvel when I observe these men setting themselves up as instructors of youth who cannot see that they are applying the analogy of an art with ….

Conduct yourself towards your parents as you would have your children conduct themselves towards you..

Let there be but two occasions for speech - when the subject is one which you thoroughly know and when it is one on which you are compelled to speak.….

Guard yourself against accusations, even if they are false; for the multitude are ignorant of the truth and look only to reputation..

Make no man your friend before inquiring how he has used his former friends; for you must expect him to treat you as he has treated them. Be slow to ….

Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is immortal..

So far has Athens left the rest of mankind behind in thought and expression that her pupils have become the teachers of the world, and she has made t….

Always when you are about to say anything, first weigh it in your mind; for with many the tongue outruns the thought..

Abhor flatterers as you would deceivers; for both, if trusted, injure those who trust them. If you admit as friends men who seek your favor for the l….

And let no one suppose that I claim that just living can be taught for, in a word, I hold that there does not exist an art of the kind which can impl….

It is not fitting that the evil produced by men should be imputed to things; let those bear the blame who make an ill use of things in themselves goo….

Consider that nothing in human life is stable; for then you will not exult overmuch in prosperity, nor grieve overmuch in adversity. Rejoice over the….

Those who directed the state in the time of Solon and Cleisthenes did not establish a polity which ... trained the citizens in such fashion that they….