Calumny is only the noise of madmen.
Boasting, like gilded armour, is very different inside from outside.
The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.
By worrying as little as possible about fame.
Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.
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.