Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Protagoras asserted that there are two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other.

Education gives sobriety to the young, comfort to the old, riches to the poor and is an ornament to the rich.

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.

The Sun visits cesspools without being defiled.

It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.

Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.