When another is asked a question, take special care not to interrupt to answer it yourself.

Themistocles replied that a man's discourse was like to a rich Persian carpet, the beautiful figures and patterns of which can only be shown by spreading and extending it out; when it is contracted and folded up, they are obscured and lost.

The authors of great evils know best how to remove them.

Solon being asked, namely, what city was best to live in. That city, he replied, in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.

Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it to that of a beast.

He is a fool who leaves things close at hand to follow what is out of reach.

Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as packs.