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A Traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, I do not believe you can do as much. True, said he. but every goose can.

He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush.

Like watermen who look astern while they row the boat ahead.

Socrates ... said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.

What, did you not know, then, that to-day Lucullus dines with Lucullus?

Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

God is the brave man's hope, and not the coward's excuse.

Not Philip, but Phillip's gold, took the cities of Greece.

The wildest colts only make the best horses.

Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave.

I have heard that Tiberius used to say that that man was ridiculous, who after sixth years, appealed to a physician.

When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, "Action," and which was the second, he replied, "action," and which was the third, he still answered "Action."

It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration,--nay, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.

Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.

The drop hollows out the stone not by strength, but by constant falling.

Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back.