Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage.

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

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.

The human heart becomes softened by hearing of instances of gentleness and consideration.

It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.

The state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting.

Oh, what a world full of pain we create, for a little taste upon the tongue.