For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.

Medicine for the dead is too late

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.

Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.

By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.

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