Children are to be won to follow liberal studies by exhortations and rational motives, and on no account to be forced thereto by whipping.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

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.

Blinded as they are to their true character by self-love, every man is his own first and chiefest flatterer, prepared, therefore, to welcome the flatterer from the outside, who only comes confirming the verdict of the flatterer within.

It was not important how many enemies there are, but where the enemy is

The state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting.

Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage.