Birth: 35 Death: 100
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body..
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire..
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set..
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason..
Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune..
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man. [Lat., In totum jurare, nisi ubi necesse est, gravi viro parum convenit.].
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end..
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it..
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity..
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture..
Conscience is a thousand witnesses..
Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature..
Give me the boy who rouses when he is praised, who profits when he is encouraged and who cries when he is defeated. Such a boy will be fired by ambit….
For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience..
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue..
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education. [Lat., Virtus, etiamsi quosdam impetus a natura sumi….
A liar should have a good memory..
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue..
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own..
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it..
She abounds with lucious faults..