Silence is an answer to a wise man.

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

For he who gives no fuel to fire puts it out, and likewise he who does not in the beginning nurse his wrath and does not puff himself up with anger takes precautions against it and destroys it.

Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty.

The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle.

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

But the Lacedaemonians, who make it their first principle of action to serve their country's interest, know not any thing to be just or unjust by any measure but that.