[734:1] Lysander said, "When the lion's skin cannot prevail, a little of the fox's must be used."—Laconic Apophthegms. (Lysander.)

[734:2] Pardon one offence, and you encourage the commission of many.—Publius Syrus: Maxim 750.

[735:1] Veni, vidi, vici.

[735:2] See Publius Syrus, page [714].

[735:3] See "Of Unknown Authorship," page [707]. Also Publius Syrus, page [709].

[736:1] See Pope, page [317].

Plutarch ascribes this saying to Plato. It is also ascribed to Pythagoras, Chilo, Thales, Cleobulus, Bias, and Socrates; also to Phemonë, a mythical Greek poetess of the ante-Homeric period. Juvenal (Satire xi. 27) says that this precept descended from heaven.

[738:1] Spare your breath to cool your porridge.—Rabelais: Works, book v. chap. xxviii.

[738:2] See Fielding, page [363].

He used to say that other men lived to eat, but that he ate to live.—Diogenes Laertius: Socrates, xiv.