The new king [Alexander the Great] should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future ages labour and sweat to describe and celebrate him.

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

A Spartan woman, as she handed her son his shield, exhorted him saying, "As a warrior of Sparta come back with your shield or on it."

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

Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

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

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.