All men are alike when asleep.

It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits. It is equally unreasonable to accept merely probable conclusions from a mathematician and to demand strict demonstration from an orator.

Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing.

The argument of Alcidamas: Everyone honours the wise. Thus the Parians have honoured Archilochus, in spite of his bitter tongue; the Chians Homer, though he was not their countryman; the Mytilenaeans Sappho, though she was a woman; the Lacedaemonians actually made Chilon a member of their senate, though they are the least literary of men; the inhabitants of Lampsacus gave public burial to Anaxagoras, though he was an alien, and honour him even to this day.

Courage is the mother of all virtues because without it, you cannot consistently perform the others.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

All that we do is done with an eye to something else.