Children are to be won to follow liberal studies by exhortations and rational motives, and on no account to be forced thereto by whipping.

The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements.

He is a fool who leaves things close at hand to follow what is out of reach.

The crowns of kings do not prevent those who wear them from being tormented sometimes by violent headaches.

But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.

Knavery is the best defense against a knave.

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.