Even the ablest pilots are willing to receive advice from passengers in tempestuous weather.

For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights us.

The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue.

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

I will adhere to the counsels of good men, although misfortune and death should be the consequence.

Life without learning is death.

Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger.