I have gathered a posy of other men’s flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.

It is only reasonable to allow the administration of affairs to mothers before their children reach the age prescribed by law at which they themselves can be responsible. But that father would have reared them ill who could not hope that in their maturity they would have more wisdom and competence than his wife.

We do not correct the man we hang; we correct others by him.

That is why Bias jested with those who were going through the perils of a great storm with him and calling on the gods for help: "Shut up," he said, "so that they do not realize that you are here with me.

Though we may be learned by another's knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience.

Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.