Be rather delighted with those that reprove, than with those that flatter you. - Stobaeus

Those things which the body necessarily requires, are easily to be procured by all men, without labour and molestation; but those things to the attainment of which labour and molestation are requisite, are objects of desire, not to the body, but to depraved opinion.

When the wise man opens his mouth, the beauties of his soul present themselves to the view, like the statues in a temple.

Pythagoras being asked how a man ought to conduct himself towards his country, when it had acted iniquitously with respect to him, replied, as to a mother.