Great Throughts Treasury

"There is no remedy for the flatterer's bitre."

"Men of sense often learn from their enemies. Prudence is the best safeguard. This principle cannot be leaned from a friend, but an enemy extorts it immediately. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war. And this lesson saves their children, their homes, and their properties."

"The love of money overcomes us all."

"No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain."

"Uncurbed, unfettered, uncontrolled of speech, unperiphrastic, bombastiloquent."

"Children should be seen and not heard."

"Even from a foe a man may wisdom learn."

"Wise men learn much from enemies."

"The wise learn many things from their enemies."

"Learn how to row before taking the rudder."