A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling inot actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.

Conscience is a thousand witnesses.

A liar should have a good memory.

It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.

The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.

For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.

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.