I do not think that shoemaker a good workman that makes a great shoe for a little foot.

While Leonidas was preparing to make his stand, a Persian envoy arrived. The envoy explained to Leonidas the futility of trying to resist the advance of the Great King's army and demanded that the Greeks lay down their arms and submit to the might of Persia. Leonidas laconically told Xerxes, "Come and get them.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.

For man is a plant, not fixed in the earth, nor immovable, but heavenly, whose head, rising as it were from a root upwards, is turned towards heaven.

It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.

These Macedonians are a rude and clownish people; they call a spade a spade.