"Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent."

"So, Damocles, since this life delights you, do you wish to taste it yourself and make trial of my fortune?"

"Among the Greek kingdoms, Sicily was renowned for its tyrannical regimes. Its rulers exercised habitual violence agai…"

"You deceive your countrymen with words, in dissuading them from war, since under the name of peace you are bringing u…"

"As to supposing that I am emulous of , you are mistaken; for he, with the support of all Greece, hardly took one city…"

"It was his habit to appear at all times with a well-groomed body and a cheerful countenance, but on the day after tha…"

"When the Spartans accused the Thebans of a long list of serious offences, he retorted, "These Thebans, however, have …"

"When somebody reported that the Athenians had sent an army, decked out with novel equipment, into the Pelopennese, he…"

"Learning that his shield-bearer had received a great deal of money from a man who had been taken captive in the war, …"

"His indifference to money was put to the proof by Diomedon of Cyzicus; for he, at the request of , had undertaken to …"