These Macedonians are a rude and clownish people; they call a spade a spade.

If any man think it a small matter, or of mean concernment, to bridle his tongue, he is much mistaken; for it is a point to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.

Lying is a most disgraceful vice; it first despises God, and then fears men.

He (Cato) never gave his opinion in the Senate upon any other point whatever, without adding these words, "And, in my opinion Carthage should be destroyed." ["Delenda est Carthago."]

Children ought to be led to honorable practices by means of encouragement and reasoning, and most certainly not by blows and ill treatment.

The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men.

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