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

While Leonidas was preparing to make his stand, a Persian envoy arrived. The envoy explained to Leonidas the futility of trying to resist the advance of the Great King's army and demanded that the Greeks lay down their arms and submit to the might of Persia. Leonidas laconically told Xerxes, "Come and get them.

It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.

Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall.

Nor is drunkenness censured for anything so much as its intemperate and endless talk.

Antisthenes says that in a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered, and after some time then thaw and become audible, so that words spoken in winter go unheard until the next summer.

Both Empedocles and Heraclitus held it for a truth that man could not be altogether cleared from injustice in dealing with beasts as he now does.