Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils..

For, in the language of Heraclitus, the virtuous soul is pure and unmixed light, springing from the body as a flash of lightning darts from the cloud….

The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds..

The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever..

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

Nature without learning is like a blind man; learning without Nature, like a maimed one; practice without both, incomplete. As in agriculture a good ….

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 ….

Come back with your shield - or on it.

But the Lacedaemonians, who make it their first principle of action to serve their country's interest, know not any thing to be just or unjust by any….

Learn to be pleased with everything...because it could always be worse, but isn't!.

Once when Phocion had delivered an opinion which pleased the people, he turned to his friend and said, "Have I not unawares spoken some mischievous t….

For man is a plant, not fixed in the earth, nor immovable, but heavenly, whose head, rising as it were from a root upwards, is turned towards heaven..

Time is the wisest of all counselors..

Demosthenes told Phocion, "The Athenians will kill you some day when they once are in a rage." "And you," said he, "if they are once in their senses.".

Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as packs..

Spintharus, speaking in commendation of Epaminondas, says he scarce ever met with any man who knew more and spoke less..

Cicero called Aristotle a river of flowing gold, and said of Plato's Dialogues, that if Jupiter were to speak, it would be in language like theirs..

To the Greeks, the supreme function of music was to "praise the gods and educate the youth". In Egypt... Initiatory music was heard only in Temple ri….

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….

Among real friends there is no rivalry or jealousy of one another, but they are satisfied and contented alike whether they are equal or one of them i….

A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?" holdi….