The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.

Alexander esteemed it more kingly to govern himself than to conquer his enemies.

What All The World Knows Water is the principle, or the element, of things. All things are water.

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

For it was not so much that by means of words I came to a complete understanding of things, as that from things I somehow had an experience which enabled me to follow the meaning of words.

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

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