The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man.

Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

More will be accomplished, and better, and with more ease, if every man does what he is best fitted to do, and nothing else.

They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.

The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.

There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.