Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of any angry man.
If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
Lycurgus being asked why he, who in other respects appeared to be so zealous for the equal rights of men, did not make his government democratical rather than oligarchical, "Go you," replied the legislator, "and try a democracy in your own house.
These Macedonians are a rude and clownish people; they call a spade a spade.