There are two sentences inscribed upon the Ancient oracle... "Know thyself" and "Nothing too much"; and upon these all other precepts depend.

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

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

The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must be as formidable as possible, the second as pleasant as possible, to the participants.

The flatterer's object is to please in everything he does; whereas the true friend always does what is right, and so often gives pleasure, often pain, not wishing the latter, but not shunning it either, if he deems it best.

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.