There is no perfecter endowment in man than political virtue..

Nor let us part with justice, like a cheap and common thing, for a small and trifling price..

As those that pull down private houses adjoining to the temples of the gods, prop up such parts as are contiguous to them; so, in undermining bashful….

The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing..

Men who marry wives very much superior to themselves are not so truly husbands to their wives as they are unawares made slaves to their position..

When another is asked a question, take special care not to interrupt to answer it yourself..

I see the cure is not worth the pain..

There is never the body of a man, how strong and stout soever, if it be troubled and inflamed, but will take more harm and offense by wine being pour….

Lampis, the sea commander, being asked how he got his wealth, answered, "My greatest estate I gained easily enough, but the smaller slowly and with m….

Why does pouring Oil on the Sea make it Clear and Calm? Is it that the winds, slipping the smooth oil, have no force, nor cause any waves?.

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he ….

He who first called money the sinews of the state seems to have said this with special reference to war..

Politics is not like an ocean voyage or a military campaign... something which leaves off as soon as reached. It is not a public chore to be gotten o….

Choose what is best, and habit will make it pleasant and easy..

Though others before him had triumphed three times, Pompeius, by having gained his first triumph over Libya, his second over Europe, and this the las….

For the rich men without scruple drew the estate into their own hands, excluding the rightful heirs from their succession; and all the wealth being c….

There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice..

Themistocles replied that a man's discourse was like to a rich Persian carpet, the beautiful figures and patterns of which can only be shown by sprea….

Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'..

The old proverb was now made good, "the mountain had brought forth a mouse..

It is easy to utter what has been kept silent, but impossible to recall what has been uttered..