He who owns a hundred sheep must fight with fifty wolves
Water and our necessary food are the only things that wise men must fight for.
Riches for the most part are hurtful to them that possess them.
Children are to be won to follow liberal studies by exhortations and rational motives, and on no account to be forced thereto by whipping.
The usual disease of princes, grasping covetousness, had made them suspicious and quarrelsome neighbors.
A traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True," said he, "but every goose can."