Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.