Were it only to learn benevolence to humankind, we should be merciful to other creatures.

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

The crowns of kings do not prevent those who wear them from being tormented sometimes by violent headaches.

The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Themistocles replied that a man's discourse was like to a rich Persian carpet, the beautiful figures and patterns of which can only be shown by spreading and extending it out; when it is contracted and folded up, they are obscured and lost.

We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.