Great things are won by great dangers.

A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

It is the greatest and the tallest of trees that the gods bring low with bolts and thunder. For the gods love to thwart whatever is greater than the rest. They do not suffer pride in anyone but themselves.

My men have become women, but the women men.

Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

They [the Persians] are accustomed to deliberate on matters of the highest moment when warm with wine; but whatever they in this situation may determine is again proposed to them on the morrow, in their cooler moments, by the person in whose house they had before assembled. If at this time also it meet their approbation, it is executed; otherwise it is rejected. Whatever also they discuss when sober, is always a second time examined after they have been drinking.