We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

He has the most who is most content with the least.

When two friends part they should lock up each other's secrets and exchange keys. The truly noble mind has no resentments.

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

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

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.

Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust. Envy of others comes from comparing what they have with what the envious person has, rather than the envious person realising they have more than what they could have and certainly more than some others and being grateful. It is really just an inability to get a correct perspective on their lives.