Flattery is like a painted armor; only for show.

Antiphon, as another man gets pleasure from a good horse, or a dog, or a bird, I get even more pleasure from good friends. And if I have something good, I teach it to them, and I introduce them to others who will be useful to them with respect to virtue. And together with my friends I go through the treasures of wise men of old which they left behind written in books, and we peruse them. If we see something good, we pick it out and hold it to be a great profit, if we are able to prove useful to one another.

Though flattery blossoms like friendship, yet there is a vast difference in the fruit.

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness.

There is no illness of the body except for the mind

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.