What All The World Knows Water is the principle, or the element, of things. All things are water.

Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.

Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.

For there is no virtue, the honour and credit for which procures a man more odium from the elite than that of justice; and this, because more than any other, it acquires a man power and authority among the common people. For they only honour the valiant and admire the wise, while in addition they also love just men, and put entire trust and confidence in them.

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.

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."