When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish.

Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

When the candles are out all women are fair.

Demosthenes, when taunted by Pytheas that all his arguments "smelled of the lamp," replied, "Yes, but your lamp and mine, my friend, do not witness the same labours.

When I myself had twice or thrice made a resolute resistance unto anger, the like befell me that did the Thebans; who, having once foiled the Lacedaemonians (who before that time had held themselves invincible), never after lost so much as one battle which they fought against them.

Real excellence, indeed, is most recognized when most openly looked into.

Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall.