Courage, my boy! that is the complexion of virtue.

When Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, To know one's self. And what was easy, To advise another.

Aristippus being asked what were the most necessary things for well-born boys to learn, said, "Those things which they will put in practice when they become men.

Heraclitus says that Pittacus, when he had got Alcæus into his power, released him, saying, "Forgiveness is better than revenge.

Plato affirmed that the soul was immortal and clothed in many bodies successively.

As some say, Solon was the author of the apophthegm, "Nothing in excess.

Sacrifice to the Graces.