It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.