Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.

A healer of others, himself diseased.

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.

Proper listening is the foundation of proper living.

What All The World Knows Water is the principle, or the element, of things. All things are water.

The usual disease of princes, grasping covetousness, had made them suspicious and quarrelsome neighbors.

A friend should be like money, tried before being required, not found faulty in our need.