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.

When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish.

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

It is the admirer of himself, and not the admirer of virtue, that thinks himself superior to others.

So also it is good not always to make a friend of the person who is expert in twining himself around us; but, after testing them, to attach ourselves to those who are worthy of our affection and likely to be serviceable to us.

When I myself had twice or thrice made a resolute resistance unto anger, the like befell me that did the Thebans; who, having once foiled the Lacedaemonians (who before that time had held themselves invincible), never after lost so much as one battle which they fought against them.

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