The Spartans do not ask how many are the enemy but where are they.
It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.
It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it's place is a work extremely troublesome.
It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.
Painting is silent poetry.
Democritus urges us to seek out labor, which is a source of great and glorious things for men.
Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
Being conscious of having done a wicked action leaves stings of remorse behind it, which, like an ulcer in the flesh, makes the mind smart with perpetual wounds; for reason, which chases away all other pains, creates repentance, shames the soul with confusion, and punishes it with torment.
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
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