For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
She abounds with lucious faults.
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.