Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced the majority allow themselves to be persuaded.

Some people spend the day in complaining of a headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.

Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

A king there was once reigning, Who had a goodly flea, Him loved he without feigning, As his own son were he!

Look at a man the way he is and he only becomes worse, but look at him as if he were what he could be, then he becomes what he should be.

Sameness leaves us in peace but it is contradiction that makes us productive.