A field is the most just possession for men. For what nature requires it carefully bears: barley, oil, wine, figs, honey. Silver-plate and purple will do for the tragedians, not for life.

It is easy for men to give advice, but difficult for one's self to follow; we have an example in physicians: for their patients they order a strict regime, for themselves, on going to bed, they do all that they have forbidden to others.

Look around you: there is not a doctor who desires the health of his friends, not a soldier who desires peace for his country.

A farmer is always going to be rich next year.

Grief, like a tree, has tears for its fruit.

Only the doctor and the judge have the right to inflict the death penalty without receiving the same.

Temperate anger well becomes the wise.