When one is transported by rage, it is best to observe attentively the effects on those who deliver themselves over to the same passion.

Riches for the most part are hurtful to them that possess them.

Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice.

A traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True," said he, "but every goose can."

I, for my part, wonder of what sort of feeling, mind or reason that man was possessed who was first to pollute his mouth with gore, and to allow his lips to touch the flesh of a murdered being: who spread his table with the mangled forms of dead bodies, and claimed as daily food and dainty dishes what but now were beings endowed with movement, perception and with voice. …but for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh, we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that portion of life and time it had been born in to the world to enjoy.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.