Abstruse questions must have abstruse answers.

It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

Demosthenes, when taunted by Pytheas that all his arguments "smelled of the lamp," replied, "Yes, but your lamp and mine, my friend, do not witness the same labours.

A fool cannot hold his tongue.

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.

Nor let us part with justice, like a cheap and common thing, for a small and trifling price.