Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.
One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings
The great thieves lead away the little thief.
We have complicated every simple gift of the gods.
To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other.
Let us not unlearn what we have already learned