 Blushing is the color of virtue. |
| It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend. |
| I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough. |
| It takes a wise man to discover a wise man. |
| Stand a little less between me and the sun. |
| A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies. |
| 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. |
| The mob is the mother of tyrants. |
| The great thieves lead away the little thief. |
| Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one. |
| I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. |
| The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust. |
| Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad. |
| Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards. |
| The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them. |
| 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. |
| As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task. |
| 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. |
| What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others. |
| 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. |
