Talkativeness has another plague attached to it, even curiosity; for praters wish to hear much that they may have much to say.

It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.

There is no perfecter endowment in man than political virtue.

Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.

This excerpt is presented as reproduced by Copernicus in the preface to De Revolutionibus: "Some think that the earth remains at rest. But Philolaus the Pythagorean believes that, like the sun and moon, it revolves around the fire in an oblique circle. Heraclides of Pontus and Ecphantus the Pythagorean make the earth move, not in a progressive motion, but like a wheel in rotation from west to east around its own center."

For, in the language of Heraclitus, the virtuous soul is pure and unmixed light, springing from the body as a flash of lightning darts from the cloud. But the soul that is carnal and immersed in sense, like a heavy and dank vapor, can with difficulty be kindled, and caused to raise its eyes heavenward.

A good man will take care of his horses and dogs, not only while they are young, but when old and past service.