They fought indeed and were slain, but it was to maintain the luxury and the wealth of other men.

And Archimedes, as he was washing, thought of a manner of computing the proportion of gold in King Hiero's crown by seeing the water flowing over the bathing-stool. He leaped up as one possessed or inspired, crying, "I have found it! Eureka!".

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

Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.

Alexander esteemed it more kingly to govern himself than to conquer his enemies.

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.

If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.