So long as he was personally present, [Alcibiades] had the perfect mastery of his political adversaries; calumny only succeeded in his absence..

The new king [Alexander the Great] should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future ages labour and swea….

For there is no virtue, the honour and credit for which procures a man more odium from the elite than that of justice; and this, because more than an….

The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it..

Lycurgus the Lacedæmonian brought long hair into fashion among his countrymen, saying that it rendered those that were handsome more beautiful, and t….

He who cheats with an oath acknowledges that he is afraid of his enemy, but that he thinks little of God..

As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect ….

Agesilaus was very fond of his children; and it is reported that once toying with them he got astride upon a reed as upon a horse, and rode about the….

The saying of old Antigonus, who when he was to fight at Andros, and one told him, "The enemy's ships are more than ours," replied, "For how many the….

For it was not so much that by means of words I came to a complete understanding of things, as that from things I somehow had an experience which ena….

Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world..

The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must be as formidable as possible, the second as….

It is no flattery to give a friend a due character; for commendation is as much the duty of a friend as reprehension..

Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless..

The worship most acceptable to God comes from a thankful and cheerful heart..

Grief is like a physical pain which must be allowed to subside somewhat on its own before medical treatment is applied..

Valour, however unfortunate, commands great respect even from enemies: but the Romans despise cowardice, even though it be prosperous..

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech..

So also it is good not always to make a friend of the person who is expert in twining himself around us; but, after testing them, to attach ourselves….

It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad..

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little….