When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.

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

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.

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

Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.

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