Better a good enemy than a bad friend.

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

...that not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued.

Don't ask a poet to explain himself. He cannot.

The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.

The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul. Let no one persuade you to cure the head until he has first given you his soul to be cured, for this is the great error of our day, that physicians first separate the soul from the body.

All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing.