The Scythians take kannabis seed, creep in under the felts, and throw it on the red-hot stones. It smolders and sends up such billows of steam-smoke that no Greek vapor bath can surpass it. The Scythians howl with joy in these vapor-baths, which serve them instead of bathing, for they never wash their bodies with water.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

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

When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.

For of those [cities] that were great in earlier times, most of them have now become small, while those which were great in my time were small formerly.

Calumny is a monstrous vice: for, where parties indulge in it, there are always two that are actively engaged in doing wrong, and one who is subject to injury. The calumniator inflicts wrong by slandering the absent; he who gives credit to the calumny before he has investigated the truth is equally implicated. The person traduced is doubly injured--first by him who propagates, and secondly by him who credits the calumny.

In soft regions are born soft men.