A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.

It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.

All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.

In soft regions are born soft men.

Tell Greece that her spring has been taken out of her year.

Bowmen bend their bows when they wish to shoot: unbrace them when the shooting is over. Were they kept always strung they would break and fail the archer in time of need. So it is with men. If they give themselves constantly to serious work, and never indulge awhile in pastime or sport, they lose their senses and become mad.

I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.