The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect - it is too exciting.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak.

Is it not true that the clever rogue is like the runner who runs well for the first half of the course, but flags before reaching the goal: he is quick off the mark, but ends in disgrace and slinks away crestfallen and uncrowned. The crown is the prize of the really good runner who perseveres to the end.

. . . you did not seem to me over-fond of money. And this is the way in general with those who have not made it themselves, while those who have are twice as fond of it as anyone else. For just as poets are fond of their own poems, and fathers of their own children, so money-makers become devoted to money, not only because, like other people, they find it useful, but because it's their own creation.

Aspiring minds must sometimes sustain loss.

To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.