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

When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.

As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.

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.

That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.

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