When a man's eyes are sore his friends do not let him finger them, however much he wishes to, nor do they themselves touch the inflammation: But a man sunk in grief suffers every chance comer to stir and augment his affliction like a running sore; and by reason of the fingering and consequent irritation it hardens into a serious and intractable evil.

Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage.

So also it is good not always to make a friend of the person who is expert in twining himself around us; but, after testing them, to attach ourselves to those who are worthy of our affection and likely to be serviceable to us.

A warrior carries his shield for the sake of the entire line.

What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns to skip, dance, and kneel

Children ought to be led to honorable practices by means of encouragement and reasoning, and most certainly not by blows and ill treatment.

I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.