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

Calumny is only the noise of madmen.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

Let us not unlearn what we have already learned

There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.

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.

When asked what was the proper time for supper: If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.