He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.

In soft regions are born soft men.

Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.

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.

It is said that as many days as there are in the whole journey, so many are the men and horses that stand along the road, each horse and man at the interval of a days journey; and these are stayed neither by snow nor rain nor heat nor darkness from accomplishing their appointed course with all speed.

To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.

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