The authors of great evils know best how to remove them.
When a man's struggle begins within oneself, the man is worth something.
There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice.
Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen.
Time which diminishes all things increases understanding for the aging.
Antisthenes says that in a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered, and after some time then thaw and become audible, so that words spoken in winter go unheard until the next summer.