If we traverse the world, it is possible to find cities without walls, without letters, without kings, without wealth, without coin, without schools ….

Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny..

He is a fool who leaves things close at hand to follow what is out of reach..

The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way to action by the greater trust that ….

Lysander, when Dionysius sent him two gowns, and bade him choose which he would carry to his daughter, said, "She can choose best," and so took both ….

Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would ….

That we may consult concerning others, and not others concerning us..

I do not think that shoemaker a good workman that makes a great shoe for a little foot..

Let a prince be guarded with soldiers, attended by councillors, and shut up in forts; yet if his thoughts disturb him, he is miserable..

When a man's eyes are sore his friends do not let him finger them, however much he wishes to, nor do they themselves touch the inflammation: But a ma….

Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow..

What, did you not know, then, that to-day Lucullus dines with Lucullus?.

Time which diminishes all things increases understanding for the aging..

There are two sentences inscribed upon the Ancient oracle... "Know thyself" and "Nothing too much"; and upon these all other precepts depend..

Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy..

Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken..

We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away..

To Harmodius, descended from the ancient Harmodius, when he reviled Iphicrates [a shoemaker's son] for his mean birth, "My nobility," said he, "begin….

It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it's pla….

Friendship is the most pleasant of all things, and nothing more glads the heart of man..

In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker..