"That proverbial saying, "Ill news goes quick and far.""

Of Inquisitiveness.

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

Remarkable Speeches.

"Spintharus, speaking in commendation of Epaminondas, says he scarce ever met with any man who knew more and spoke less."

Of Hearing. 6.

"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."

Of Hearing. 6.

"Antiphanes said merrily, that in a certain city the cold was so intense that words were congealed as soon as spoken, but that after some time they thawed and became audible; so that the words spoken in winter were articulated next summer."

Of Man's Progress in Virtue.

"As those persons who despair of ever being rich make little account of small expenses, thinking that little added to a little will never make any great sum."

Of Man's Progress in Virtue.

"What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns to skip, dance, and kneel."

Of Fortune.

"No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune."

Of Fortune.

"Alexander was wont to say, "Were I not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.""

Of the Fortune or Virtue of Alexander the Great.

"When the candles are out all women are fair."

Conjugal Precepts.

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

Whether 't was rightfully said, Live Concealed.

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

Of Banishment.

"Anaximander says that men were first produced in fishes, and when they were grown up and able to help themselves were thrown up, and so lived upon the land."

Symposiacs. Book. viii. Question viii.

"Athenodorus says hydrophobia, or water-dread, was first discovered in the time of Asclepiades."

Symposiacs. Book. viii. Question ix.

"Let us not wonder if something happens which never was before, or if something doth not appear among us with which the ancients were acquainted."

Symposiacs. Book viii. Question ix.

"The great god Pan is dead."

Why the Oracles cease to give Answers.

"I am whatever was, or is, or will be; and my veil no mortal ever took up."

Of Isis and Osiris.

"When Hermodotus in his poems described Antigonus as the son of Helios, "My valet-de-chambre," said he, "is not aware of this.""

Of Isis and Osiris.

"There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice."

Of those whom God is slow to punish.

"It is a difficult thing for a man to resist the natural necessity of mortal passions."

Of those whom God is slow to punish.

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

Of Garrulity.

"We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against Nature."

Of Eating of Flesh. Tract 1.

"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.""

Lives of the Ten Orators.

"Xenophon says that there is no sound more pleasing than one's own praises."

Whether an Aged Man ought to meddle in State Affairs.

"Lampis, the sea commander, being asked how he got his wealth, answered, "My greatest estate I gained easily enough, but the smaller slowly and with much labour.""

Whether an Aged Man ought to meddle in State Affairs.

"The general himself ought to be such a one as can at the same time see both forward and backward."

Whether an Aged Man ought to meddle in State Affairs.

"Statesmen are not only liable to give an account of what they say or do in public, but there is a busy inquiry made into their very meals, beds, marriages, and every other sportive or serious action."

Political Precepts.

"Leo Byzantius said, "What would you do, if you saw my wife, who scarce reaches up to my knees? . . . Yet," went he on, "as little as we are, when we fall out with each other, the city of Byzantium is not big enough to hold us.""

Political Precepts.

"Cato said, "I had rather men should ask why my statue is not set up, than why it is.""

Political Precepts.

"It was the saying of Bion, that though the boys throw stones at frogs in sport, yet the frogs do not die in sport but in earnest."

Which are the most crafty, Water or Land Animals? 7.

"Both Empedocles and Heraclitus held it for a truth that man could not be altogether cleared from injustice in dealing with beasts as he now does."

Which are the most crafty, Water or Land Animals? 7.

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

Against Colotes.

"Simonides calls painting silent poetry, and poetry speaking painting."

Whether the Athenians were more Warlike or Learned. 3.

"As Meander says, "For our mind is God;" and as Heraclitus, "Man's genius is a deity.""

Platonic Questions. i.

"Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world."

Platonic Questions. viii. 4.

"To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported."

Discourses. Chap. ii.

"Yet God hath not only granted these faculties, by which we may bear every event without being depressed or broken by it, but like a good prince and a true father, hath placed their exercise above restraint, compulsion, or hindrance, and wholly without our own control."

Discourses. Chap. vi.

"In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our inward opinions and principles."

Discourses. Chap. xi.

"Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle."

Discourses. Chap. xii.

"O slavish man! will you not bear with your own brother, who has God for his Father, as being a son from the same stock, and of the same high descent? But if you chance to be placed in some superior station, will you presently set yourself up for a tyrant?"

Discourses. Chap. xiii.

"When you have shut your doors, and darkened your room, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; but God is within, and your genius is within,--and what need have they of light to see what you are doing?"

Discourses. Chap. xiv.

"No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen."

Discourses. Chap. xv.

"Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind."

Discourses. Chap. xvi.

"Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan."

Discourses. Chap. xvi.

"Since it is Reason which shapes and regulates all other things, it ought not itself to be left in disorder."

Discourses. Chap. xvii.

"If what the philosophers say be true,--that all men's actions proceed from one source; that as they assent from a persuasion that a thing is so, and dissent from a persuasion that it is not, and suspend their judgment from a persuasion that it is uncertain,--so likewise they seek a thing from a persuasion that it is for their advantage."

Discourses. Chap. xviii.

"Practise yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things; and thence proceed to greater."

Discourses. Chap. xviii.

"Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects."

Discourses. Chap. xx.

"Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod?"

Discourses. Chap. xxi.

"When one maintains his proper attitude in life, he does not long after externals. What would you have, O man?"

Discourses. Chap. xxi.