If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.

He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.

Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.

Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.

The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril.

The sweetest of all sounds is praise.