[It was] better to set up a monarchy themselves than to suffer a sedition to continue that must certainly end in one. - Plutarch

For water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.

"Once being hard pressed in wrestling, and fearing to be thrown, he got the hand of his antagonist to his mouth, and bit it with all his force; and when the other loosed his hold presently, and said, "You bite, Alcibiades, like a woman." "No," replied he, "like a lion." Another"

Even those virtues which nature had denied him were imitated by him so successfully that he won more confidence than those who actually possessed them.