Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
Medicine for the dead is too late
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.