The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.
Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.
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.