Sublime

He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.

Once a Spartan boy stole a fox and hid it under his cloak. Some grown warriors stopped to question him on an unrelated subject. Beneath the cloak, the fox began gnawing at the youth’s belly. The boy made no sound but allowed the beast to bleed him to death, rather than cry out or reveal his deed.

It’s the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.

Whoever cultivates the Golden Mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private.

The following instances of the application of fables to particular occasions are recorded. The fable of The Belly and the Members, which is reputed to be the oldest in existence, is of sterling excellence, as well as of venerable antiquity.[43] Its lucid moral is truth in essence. The logic of its conclusion is as invulnerable as the demonstration

The wise make known their gratitude for the smallest favor they receive and expect none for the greatest benefit they bestow.