When the candles are out all women are fair.

Memory: what wonders it performs in preserving and storing up things gone by - or rather, things that are

So long as he was personally present, [Alcibiades] had the perfect mastery of his political adversaries; calumny only succeeded in his absence.

A lover's soul lives in the body of his mistress.

A Spartan woman, as she handed her son his shield, exhorted him saying, "As a warrior of Sparta come back with your shield or on it."

A traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True," said he, "but every goose can."

So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.