It is easy to utter what has been kept silent, but impossible to recall what has been uttered.

When another is asked a question, take special care not to interrupt to answer it yourself.

It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it's place is a work extremely troublesome.

Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.

As soft wax is apt to take the stamp of the seal, so are the minds of young children to receive the instruction imprinted on them.

What most of all enables a man to serve the public is not wealth, but content and independence; which, requiring no superfluity at home, distracts not the mind from the common good.

While Leonidas was preparing to make his stand, a Persian envoy arrived. The envoy explained to Leonidas the futility of trying to resist the advance of the Great King's army and demanded that the Greeks lay down their arms and submit to the might of Persia. Leonidas laconically told Xerxes, "Come and get them.