We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.