Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'.

Custom is almost a second nature.

To fail to do good is as bad as doing harm.

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

When another is asked a question, take special care not to interrupt to answer it yourself.

Foreign lady once remarked to the wife of a Spartan commander that the women of Sparta were the only women in the world who could rule men. "We are the only women who raise men," the Spartan lady replied.

Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions.