For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights us.

After victory, you have more enemies.

While all other things are uncertain, evanescent, and ephemeral, virtue alone is fixed with deep roots; it can neither be overthrown by any violence or moved from its place.

Old age by nature is rather talkative.

I wonder that a soothsayer doesn't laugh whenever he sees another soothsayer.

No sober person dances.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?