Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage.
Character is inured habit.
It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome and vexatious.
Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.
The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.
Themistocles replied that a man's discourse was like to a rich Persian carpet, the beautiful figures and patterns of which can only be shown by spreading and extending it out; when it is contracted and folded up, they are obscured and lost.