She abounds with lucious faults.
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.