Birth: 35 Death: 100
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish..
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture..
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery..
(Slaughter) means blood and iron. [Lat., Coedes videtur significare sanguinem et ferrum.].
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education. [Lat., Virtus, etiamsi quosdam impetus a natura sumi….
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity..
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest..
A religion without mystics is a philosophy..
We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us..
She abounds with lucious faults..
Prune what is turgid, elevate what is commonplace, arrange what is disorderly, introduce rhythm where the language is harsh, modify where it is too a….
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it..
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning..
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand..
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide..
If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind..
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 som….
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity..
Usage is the best language teacher..
It is the heart which inspires eloquence..
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty. [Lat., Nimis in veritate, et similitudinis quam pulchritudinis amantior.].