A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

A good seat on a horse steals away your opponent's courage and your onlooker's heart-what reason is there to attack? Sit like one who has conquered?

The public easily confuses him who fishes in troubled waters with him who draws up water from the depths.

One day soon you will meet a man, and he will rise like a phoenix from the ashes, and it is my greatest hope that he will not give you syphilis.

That which needs to be proved cannot be worth much.

[Heraclitus] concluded that coming-to-be itself could not be anything evil or unjust.

Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups.