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

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

Solon being asked, namely, what city was best to live in. That city, he replied, in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.

And Archimedes, as he was washing, thought of a manner of computing the proportion of gold in King Hiero's crown by seeing the water flowing over the bathing-stool. He leaped up as one possessed or inspired, crying, "I have found it! Eureka!".

Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of any angry man.

It is easy to utter what has been kept silent, but impossible to recall what has been uttered.