Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

Nor is drunkenness censured for anything so much as its intemperate and endless talk.

Water and our necessary food are the only things that wise men must fight for.

Memory: what wonders it performs in preserving and storing up things gone by - or rather, things that are

The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.

To do an evil action is base; to do a good action without incurring danger is common enough; but it is the part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks every thing.

Foreign lady once remarked to the wife of a Spartan commander that the women of Sparta were the only women in the world who could rule men. "We are the only women who raise men," the Spartan lady replied.