Among real friends there is no rivalry or jealousy of one another, but they are satisfied and contented alike whether they are equal or one of them is superior.

Where the lion's skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the fox's.

Abstruse questions must have abstruse answers.

Since, during storms, flames leap from the humid vapors and dark clouds emit deafening noises, is it surprising the lightning, when it strikes the ground, gives rise to truffles, which do not resemble plants?

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

I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.

Solon being asked, namely, what city was best to live in. That city, he replied, in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.