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

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

For it was not so much that by means of words I came to a complete understanding of things, as that from things I somehow had an experience which enabled me to follow the meaning of words.

Friendship requires a steady, constant, and unchangeable character, a person that is uniform in his intimacy.

Gout is not relieved by a fine shoe nor a hangnail by a costly ring nor migraine by a tiara.

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.

Nothing can produce so great a serenity of life as a mind free from guilt and kept untainted, not only from actions, but purposes that are wicked. By this means the soul will be not only unpolluted but also undisturbed. The fountain will run clear and unsullied.