What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
Pompey had fought brilliantly and in the end routed Caesar's whole force... but either he was unable to or else he feared to push on. Caesar [said] to his friends: 'Today the enemy would have won, if they had had a commander who was a winner.'
As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, and unapproachable bogs.
From Themistocles began the saying, "He is a second Hercules."
Themistocles said that he certainly could not make use of any stringed instrument; could only, were a small and obscure city put into his hands, make it great and glorious.