Friendship demands attention.

I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows his own strength, no man could control him.

If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.

There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets.

Nor can they understand why a totally useless substance like gold should now, all over the world, be considered far more important than human beings, who gave it such value as it has, purely for their own convenience.

It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub.

For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.