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

Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.

It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.

A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.

Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.

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