Come back with your shield - or on it

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

Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.

These Macedonians are a rude and clownish people; they call a spade a spade.

A lover's soul lives in the body of his mistress.

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

Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless.