Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
A liar must have a good memory. -Mendacem oportet esse memorem
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.