Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech..

So long as he was personally present, [Alcibiades] had the perfect mastery of his political adversaries; calumny only succeeded in his absence..

Even a nod from a person who is esteemed is of more force than a thousand arguments or studied sentences from others..

The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length..

Time is the wisest of all counselors..

Concerning the dead nothing but good shall be spoken. [Lat., De mortuis nil nisi bonum.].

To please the many is to displease the wise..

Antagoras the poet was boiling a conger, and Antigonus, coming behind him as he was stirring his skillet, said, "Do you think, Antagoras, that Homer ….

... being perpetually charmed by his familiar siren, that is, by his geometry, he neglected to eat and drink and took no care of his person; that he ….

It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely….

As soft wax is apt to take the stamp of the seal, so are the minds of young children to receive the instruction imprinted on them..

What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns to skip, dance, and kn….

The saying of old Antigonus, who when he was to fight at Andros, and one told him, "The enemy's ships are more than ours," replied, "For how many the….

Agesilaus was very fond of his children; and it is reported that once toying with them he got astride upon a reed as upon a horse, and rode about the….

The soul of man... is a portion or a copy of the soul of the Universe and is joined together on principles and in proportions corresponding to those ….

For it was not so much that by means of words I came to a complete understanding of things, as that from things I somehow had an experience which ena….

Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love..

Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless..

The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it..

Grief is like a physical pain which must be allowed to subside somewhat on its own before medical treatment is applied..

Themistocles being asked whether he would rather be Achilles or Homer, said, "Which would you rather be, a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the cri….