The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent.

It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary.

It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.

One man cannot practice many arts with success.