Riches for the most part are hurtful to them that possess them.
Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
As those that pull down private houses adjoining to the temples of the gods, prop up such parts as are contiguous to them; so, in undermining bashfulness, due regard is to be had to adjacent modesty, good-nature and humanity.
Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.
Proper listening is the foundation of proper living.
Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen.