So the well educated man can learn to sing and dance well.
The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion.
If in a discussion of many matters ... we are not able to give perfectly exact and self-consistent accounts, do not be surprised: rather we would be content if we provide accounts that are second to none in probability.
Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was every granted by the gods to man.
Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary.
Nothing is more unworthy of a wise man, or ought to trouble him more, than to have allowed more time for trifling, and useless things, than they deserve.