A friend should be like money, tried before being required, not found faulty in our need..

Statesmen are not only liable to give an account of what they say or do in public, but there is a busy inquiry made into their very meals, beds, marr….

Instead of using medicine, better fast today..

He [Caesar] loved the treason, but hated the traitor..

He who least likes courting favour, ought also least to think of resenting neglect; to feel wounded at being refused a distinction can only arise fro….

Prosperity has this property, it puffs up narrow Souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and look down upon the World with Contempt; bu….

Knowledge of divine things for the most part, as Heraclitus says, is lost to us by incredulity..

Playing the Cretan with the Cretans (i.e. lying to liars)..

He who reflects on another man's want of breeding, shows he wants it as much himself.

I had rather men should ask why my statue is not set up, than why it is..

I, for my part, wonder of what sort of feeling, mind or reason that man was possessed who was first to pollute his mouth with gore, and to allow his ….

As to Caesar, when he was called upon, he gave no testimony against Clodius, nor did he affirm that he was certain of any injury done to his bed. He ….

Alexander esteemed it more kingly to govern himself than to conquer his enemies..

A prating barber asked Archelaus how he would be trimmed. He answered, "In silence.".

What most of all enables a man to serve the public is not wealth, but content and independence; which, requiring no superfluity at home, distracts no….

One made the observation of the people of Asia that they were all slaves to one man, merely because they could not pronounce that syllable No..

Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors..

Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice..

Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord..

The authors of great evils know best how to remove them..

Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to..