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

The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?

By worrying as little as possible about fame.

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

To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.