It was not important how many enemies there are, but where the enemy is
I confess myself the greatest coward in the world, for I dare not do an ill thing.
Water and our necessary food are the only things that wise men must fight for.
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.''
Apothegms are the most infallible mirror to represent a man truly what he is.
Most people do not understand until old age what Plato tells them when they are young.