There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.