Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

A good man will take care of his horses and dogs, not only while they are young, but when old and past service.

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

Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale.

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

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.

Courage and wisdom are, indeed, rarities amongst men, but of all that is good, a just man it would seem is the most scarce.