The more laws, the less justice.
Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Nature abhors annihilation.
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
True nobility is exempt from fear.
Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
There is a story that Simonides was dining at the house of a wealthy nobleman named Scopas at Crannon in Thessaly, and chanted a lyric poem which he had composed in honor of his host, in which he foll...
The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
A man of courage is also full of faith.
Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.
Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
Rashness belongs to youth prudence to old age.
I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.
The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.
There are no snares more dangerous than those which lurk under the guise of duty or the name of relationship.
The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.
In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.
Advice in old age is foolish for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.