A liar should have a good memory.
Give me the boy who rouses when he is praised, who profits when he is encouraged and who cries when he is defeated. Such a boy will be fired by ambition; he will be stung by reproach, and animated by preference; never shall I apprehend any bad consequences from idleness in such a boy.
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 pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.