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.

Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty.

The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must be as formidable as possible, the second as pleasant as possible, to the participants.

Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless.

Note that the eating of flesh is not only physically against nature, but it also makes us spiritually coarse and gross by reason of satiety and surfeit.

I had rather men should ask why my statue is not set up, than why it is.

Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.