When Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, To know one's self. And what was easy, To advise another.

Courage, my boy! that is the complexion of virtue.

As some say, Solon was the author of the apophthegm, "Nothing in excess.

There is a written and an unwritten law. The one by which we regulate our constitutions in our cities is the written law; that which arises from customs is the unwritten law.

Bury me on my face," said Diogenes; and when he was asked why, he replied, "Because in a little while everything will be turned upside down.

Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he was dying in a foreign land, "The descent to Hades is the same from every place.

Diogenes, when asked from what country he came, replied, "I am a citizen of the world."

He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.

Sacrifice to the Graces.

Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust.

Aristippus being asked what were the most necessary things for well-born boys to learn, said, "Those things which they will put in practice when they become men.

No, I do my torturing in the dungeon like any other respectable castle owner,

The free man never thinks of escape.

You can't pick and choose which types of freedom you want to defend. You must defend all of it or be against all of it.

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.

The Red Army... swept the native population clean in a manner that has no parallel since the days of the Asiatic hordes.

I was a tiger, a good fighter, in good shape, but I was always nervous before boxing matches.

Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?

A Hebrew knelt in the dying light, His eye was dim and cold; The hairs on his brow were silver white, And his blood was thin and old.