Words will build no walls..

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all th….

The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements..

The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses..

Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature..

These Macedonians are a rude and clownish people; they call a spade a spade..

Where the lion's skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the fox's..

Our senses through ignorance of Reality, falsely tell us that what appears to be, is. FEAR = False Evidence Appearing Real.

He who busies himself in mean occupations, produces in the very pains he takes about things of little or no use, an evidence against himself of his n….

Xenophon says that there is no sound more pleasing than one's own praises..

It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears..

A lover's soul lives in the body of his mistress..

Books delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense intimacy..

Whenever Alexander heard Philip had taken any town of importance, or won any signal victory, instead of rejoicing at it altogether, he would tell his….

He (Cato) never gave his opinion in the Senate upon any other point whatever, without adding these words, "And, in my opinion Carthage should be dest….

Friendship requires a steady, constant, and unchangeable character, a person that is uniform in his intimacy..

Archimedes had stated, that given the force, any given weight might be moved; and even boasted that if there were another earth, by going into it he ….

To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult..

Philosophy is the art of living..

Memory: what wonders it performs in preserving and storing up things gone by - or rather, things that are.

Lysander said that the law spoke too softly to be heard in such a noise of war..