A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.

A liar ought to have a good memory.

If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.

The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.

He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.

A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.

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.