I had rather men should ask why my statue is not set up, than why it is.
We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.
Alexander esteemed it more kingly to govern himself than to conquer his enemies.
Words will build no walls.
Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen.
It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.