When the candles are out all women are fair..

When a man's struggle begins within oneself, the man is worth something..

Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord..

The abuse of buying and selling votes crept in and money began to play an important part in determining elections. Later on, this process of corrup….

Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it to that of a beast..

Such power I gave the people as might do, Abridged not what they had, now lavished new, Those that were great in wealth and high in place My couns….

If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes..

I have heard that Tiberius used to say that that man was ridiculous, who after sixth years, appealed to a physician..

Agesilaus being invited once to hear a man who admirably imitated the nightingale, he declined, saying he had heard the nightingale itself..

Children are to be won to follow liberal studies by exhortations and rational motives, and on no account to be forced thereto by whipping..

Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions..

Anaximander says that men were first produced in fishes, and when they were grown up and able to help themselves were thrown up, and so lived upon th….

Education and study, and the favors of the muses, confer no greater benefit on those that seek them than these humanizing and civilizing lessons, whi….

A warrior carries his shield for the sake of the entire line..

The talkative listen to no one, for they are ever speaking. And the first evil that attends those who know not to be silent is that they hear nothing..

Philosophy is an act of living..

Pompey had fought brilliantly and in the end routed Caesar's whole force... but either he was unable to or else he feared to push on. Caesar [said] t….

Lycurgus being asked why he, who in other respects appeared to be so zealous for the equal rights of men, did not make his government democratical ra….

A physician, after he had felt the pulse of Pausanias, and considered his constitution, saying, "He ails nothing," "It is because, sir," he replied, ….

It is not histories I am writing, but lives; and in the most glorious deeds there is not always an indication of virtue or vice, indeed a small thing….

The pilot cannot mitigate the billows or calm the winds..