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.

There's no good answer to a question you didn't hear

Whenever a number of individuals have a common name, we assume them to have also a corresponding idea or form.

If you would seek health, look first to the spine.

Not by wisdom do they [poets] make what they compose, but by a gift of nature and an inspiration similar to that of the diviners and the oracles.

The greater the power that deigns to serve you, the more honor it demands of you.

All that we know is nothing can be known.