When you admonish a wrongdoer, do so gently, that it may not lead to hostility.

The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know...How, then, can the dog be anything other than a lover of learning since it defines what's its own and what's alien.

No one is so cowardly that Love could not inspire him to heroism.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen.

Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned.

Is it not true that the clever rogue is like the runner who runs well for the first half of the course, but flags before reaching the goal: he is quick off the mark, but ends in disgrace and slinks away crestfallen and uncrowned. The crown is the prize of the really good runner who perseveres to the end.