The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
She abounds with lucious faults.
(Slaughter) means blood and iron. [Lat., Coedes videtur significare sanguinem et ferrum.]
Lately we have had many losses.
A liar must have a good memory. -Mendacem oportet esse memorem
A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling inot actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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