The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
Water and our necessary food are the only things that wise men must fight for.
Anger turns the mind out of doors and bolts the entrance.
Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless.
When I myself had twice or thrice made a resolute resistance unto anger, the like befell me that did the Thebans; who, having once foiled the Lacedaemonians (who before that time had held themselves invincible), never after lost so much as one battle which they fought against them.