Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made.

In generosity we are equally singular, acquiring our friends by conferring, not by receiving, favours.

Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.

Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes

We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

...knowing the secret of happiness to be freedom, and the secret of freedom a brave heart, not idly to stand aside from the enemy's onset.