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.

A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?" holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me.''

When one is transported by rage, it is best to observe attentively the effects on those who deliver themselves over to the same passion.

The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage.

Talkativeness has another plague attached to it, even curiosity; for praters wish to hear much that they may have much to say.