A Spartan woman, as she handed her son his shield, exhorted him saying, "As a warrior of Sparta come back with your shield or on it."

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

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

They fought indeed and were slain, but it was to maintain the luxury and the wealth of other men.

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.

It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome and vexatious.

Either is both, and Both is neither.