There is no evil that does not offer inducements. Vices tempt you by the rewards which they offer.

The path of increase is slow, but the road to ruin is rapid.

What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.

Now we are not merely to stick knowledge on to the soul: we must incorporate it into her; the soul should not be sprinkled with knowledge but steeped in it.

Nature ever provides for her own exigencies.

He that makes himself famous by his eloquence, justice or arms illustrates his extraction, let it be never so mean; and gives inestimable reputation to his parents. We should never have heard of Sophroniscus, but for his son, Socrates; nor of Ariosto and Gryllus, if it had not been for Xenophon and Plato.

Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.