Blushing is the color of virtue.
Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.
Stand a little less between me and the sun.
A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.
The mob is the mother of tyrants.
I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.
I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.
I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.
It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.
What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.
Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?
Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.
It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.
When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.
Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.
