When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.