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.

Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it to that of a beast.

It is easy to utter what has been kept silent, but impossible to recall what has been uttered.

He who owns a hundred sheep must fight with fifty wolves

...To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage

Silence is an answer to a wise man.

A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?" holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me.''