He who owns a hundred sheep must fight with fifty wolves

Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen.

Seeing the lightest and gayest purple was then most in fashion, he would always wear that which was the nearest black; and he would often go out of doors, after his morning meal, without either shoes or tunic; not that he sought vain-glory from such novelties, but he would accustom himself to be ashamed only of what deserves shame, and to despise all other sorts of disgrace.

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.