Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.

We are more curious about the meaning of dreams than about things we see when awake.

Chilo advised, "not to speak evil of the dead."

Even if I am but a pretender to wisdom, that in itself is philosophy.

If you are to be kept right, you must possess either good friends or red-hot enemies. The one will warn you, the other will expose you.

Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions; . . . that laws were like cobwebs, - for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast; while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.