...To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage.

From Themistocles began the saying, "He is a second Hercules.".

Barba non facit philosophum.

Either is both, and Both is neither..

For the wise man, every day is a festival..

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly..

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better..

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality..

The great god Pan is dead..

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled..

This excerpt is presented as reproduced by Copernicus in the preface to De Revolutionibus: "Some think that the earth remains at rest. But Philolaus ….

And Archimedes, as he was washing, thought of a manner of computing the proportion of gold in King Hiero's crown by seeing the water flowing over the….

Were it only to learn benevolence to humankind, we should be merciful to other creatures..

Blinded as they are to their true character by self-love, every man is his own first and chiefest flatterer, prepared, therefore, to welcome the flat….

Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty..

Children ought to be led to honorable practices by means of encouragement and reasoning, and most certainly not by blows and ill treatment..

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors..

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself..

Wise men are able to make a fitting use even of their enmities..

Nor is drunkenness censured for anything so much as its intemperate and endless talk..

Forgetfulness transforms every occurrence into a non-occurrence..