Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.
Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.
Word is a shadow of a deed.
More men have become great through practice than by nature.
It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new.
Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.