An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave..

Let us not wonder if something happens which never was before, or if something doth not appear among us with which the ancients were acquainted..

It is a difficult task, O citizens, to make speeches to the belly, which has no ears..

When I myself had twice or thrice made a resolute resistance unto anger, the like befell me that did the Thebans; who, having once foiled the Lacedae….

A friend should be like money, tried before being required, not found faulty in our need..

After he routed Pharnaces Ponticus at the first assault, he wrote thus to his friends: "I came, I saw, I conquered..

The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle..

Gout is not relieved by a fine shoe nor a hangnail by a costly ring nor migraine by a tiara..

As Meander says, "For our mind is God;" and as Heraclitus, "Man's genius is a deity.".

Alcibiades had a very handsome dog, that cost him seven thousand drachmas; and he cut off his tail, "that," said he, "the Athenians may have this sto….

Being summoned by the Athenians out of Sicily to plead for his life, Alcibiades absconded, saying that that criminal was a fool who studied a defence….

The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men..

It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur….

Statesmen are not only liable to give an account of what they say or do in public, but there is a busy inquiry made into their very meals, beds, marr….

Vos vestros servate, meos mihi linquite mores You keep to your own ways, and leave mine to me.

Of the land which the Romans gained by conquest from their neighbours, part they sold publicly, and turned the remainder into common; this common lan….

Pythias once, scoffing at Demosthenes, said that his arguments smelt of the lamp..

Talkativeness has another plague attached to it, even curiosity; for praters wish to hear much that they may have much to say..

A traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True," said he, "but every goose ….

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends..

Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist..