Knavery is the best defense against a knave.
The talkative listen to no one, for they are ever speaking. And the first evil that attends those who know not to be silent is that they hear nothing.
When Demaratus was asked whether he held his tongue because he was a fool or for want of words, he replied, "A fool cannot hold his tongue.
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
As bees extract honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so sensible men often get advantage and profit from the most awkward circumstances.
The authors of great evils know best how to remove them.
When another is asked a question, take special care not to interrupt to answer it yourself.
Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.
A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?" holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me.''
Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.
Lysander said that the law spoke too softly to be heard in such a noise of war.
Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen.
A fool cannot hold his tongue.
Nature and wisdom never are at strife.
Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.
We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature.
Water and our necessary food are the only things that wise men must fight for.
The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
A healer of others, himself diseased.
Nature without learning is like a blind man; learning without Nature, like a maimed one; practice without both, incomplete. As in agriculture a good soil is first sought for, then a skilful husbandman, and then good seed; in the same way nature corresponds to the soil, the teacher to the husbandman, precepts and instruction to the seed.
Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.
Vos vestros servate, meos mihi linquite mores You keep to your own ways, and leave mine to me
It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome and vexatious.
Nothing can produce so great a serenity of life as a mind free from guilt and kept untainted, not only from actions, but purposes that are wicked. By this means the soul will be not only unpolluted but also undisturbed. The fountain will run clear and unsullied.
The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.
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