As shines the moon amid the lesser fires.
Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said, the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, everything superfluous runs over as from a full vessel.
What's well begun is half done.
Whither, O god of wine, art thou hurrying me, whilst under thy all-powerful influence?
And seek for truth in the groves of Academe.
The common people are but ill judges of a man's merits; they are slaves to fame, and their eyes are dazzled with the pomp of titles and large retinue. No wonder, then, that they bestow their honors on those who least deserve them.