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

People who talk well but do nothing are like musical intruments; the sound is all they have to offer.

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.

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.

No man is hurt but by himself. ...Literally by how he interprets what happens to him. If he focusses on how it could have been better, he will be hurt. If he focusses on how it could have been worse, he will be happy. The same is true for women too.

If your cloak was a gift, I appreciate it; if it was a loan, I'm not through with it yet.

Let us not unlearn what we have already learned