Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.

When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.

In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.

Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.

For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.

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.

A liar must have a good memory. -Mendacem oportet esse memorem