1. “All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.”
2. ”A lover's soul lives in the body of his mistress.”
3. “Arms and laws do not flourish together.”
4. "A sage thing is timely silence, and better than any speech."
5. “Be ruled by time, the wisest counsellor of all.”
6. “But if any man undertake to write a history that has to be collected from materials gathered by observation and the reading of works not easy to be got in all places, nor written always in his own language, but many of them foreign and dispersed in other hands, for him, undoubtedly, it is in the first place and above all things most necessary to reside in some city of good note, addicted to liberal arts, and populous; where he may have plenty of all sorts of books, and upon inquiry may hear and inform himself of such particulars as, having escaped the pens of writers, are more faithfully preserved in the memories of men, lest his work be deficient in many things, even those which it can least dispense with.”
7. ”Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.”
8. “Euripides was wont to say, “Silence is an answer to a wise man.””
9. "Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist."
10. “For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.”
11. “For water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.”
12. “Knowledge of divine things for the most part, as Heraclitus says, is lost to us by incredulity.”
13. “Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.”
14. "Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends."
15. “Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world."
16. "Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech."
17. “The authors of great evils know best how to remove them.”
18. “The law speaks too softly to be heard amidst the din of arms.”
19. "The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune."
20. “The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”
21. “Themistocles said that a man’s discourse was like to a rich Persian carpet, the beautiful figures and patterns of which can be shown only by spreading and extending it out; when it is contracted and folded up, they are obscured and lost.”
22. "The soul, being eternal, after death is like a caged bird that has been released. If it has been a long time in the body, and has become tame by many affairs and long habit, the soul will immediately take another body and once again become involved in the troubles of the world. The worst thing about old age is that the soul's memory of the other world grows dim, while at the same time its attachment to things of this world becomes so strong that the soul tends to retain the form that it had in the body. But that soul which remains only a short time within a body, until liberated by the higher powers, quickly recovers its fire and goes on to higher things."
23. “The most perfect soul, says Heraclitus, is a dry light, which flies out of the body as lightning breaks from a cloud.”
24. “The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.”
25. "Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly."
26. “To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.”
