That we may consult concerning others, and not others concerning us.

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.

...To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage

So long as he was personally present, [Alcibiades] had the perfect mastery of his political adversaries; calumny only succeeded in his absence.

Nor is drunkenness censured for anything so much as its intemperate and endless talk.