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

I confess myself the greatest coward in the world, for I dare not do an ill thing.

Lycurgus being asked why he, who in other respects appeared to be so zealous for the equal rights of men, did not make his government democratical rather than oligarchical, "Go you," replied the legislator, "and try a democracy in your own house.

Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of any angry man.

So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.

It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed as inferior to some one else.

To please the many is to displease the wise.