Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

Solon being asked, namely, what city was best to live in. That city, he replied, in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.

Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.

For he who gives no fuel to fire puts it out, and likewise he who does not in the beginning nurse his wrath and does not puff himself up with anger takes precautions against it and destroys it.

Whenever anything is spoken against you that is not true, do not pass by or despise it because it is false; but forthwith examine yourself, and consider what you have said or done that may administer a just occasion of reproof.

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

Children are to be won to follow liberal studies by exhortations and rational motives, and on no account to be forced thereto by whipping.