Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

So also it is good not always to make a friend of the person who is expert in twining himself around us; but, after testing them, to attach ourselves to those who are worthy of our affection and likely to be serviceable to us.

Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage.

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.