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.

Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions.

If we traverse the world, it is possible to find cities without walls, without letters, without kings, without wealth, without coin, without schools and theatres; but a city without a temple, or that practiseth not worship, prayer, and the like, no one ever saw.

It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

...To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.