Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.

Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.

So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.

Memory: what wonders it performs in preserving and storing up things gone by - or rather, things that are

Real excellence, indeed, is most recognized when most openly looked into.

The talkative listen to no one, for they are ever speaking. And the first evil that attends those who know not to be silent is that they hear nothing.

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.