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

It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed as inferior to some one else.

Children are to be won to follow liberal studies by exhortations and rational motives, and on no account to be forced thereto by whipping.

When men are arrived at the goal, they should not turn back.

I confess myself the greatest coward in the world, for I dare not do an ill thing.

Lycurgus being asked why he, who in other respects appeared to be so zealous for the equal rights of men, did not make his government democratical rather than oligarchical, "Go you," replied the legislator, "and try a democracy in your own house.

Anger turns the mind out of doors and bolts the entrance.