Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

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

Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it to that of a beast.

Mothers ought to bring up and nurse their own children; for they bring them up with greater affection and with greater anxiety, as loving them from the heart, and so to speak, every inch of them.

Antisthenes says that in a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered, and after some time then thaw and become audible, so that words spoken in winter go unheard until the next summer.

Proper listening is the foundation of proper living.

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