To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.

But the Lacedaemonians, who make it their first principle of action to serve their country's interest, know not any thing to be just or unjust by any measure but that.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every latent vice.

When the candles are out all women are fair.

What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns to skip, dance, and kneel

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.