When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defence can actually be just.

We rejoice in the joys of our friends as much as we do our own, and we are equally grieved at their sorrows. Wherefore the wise people will feel toward their friends as they do toward themselves, and whatever labor they would encounter with a view to their own pleasure, they will encounter also for the sake of their friends.

Religion is not removed by removing superstition.

No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy.

We are born poets. we become orators.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.