Time as he grows old teaches all things.
Words are the physicians of the mind diseased.
I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.
I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.
It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.
If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams – the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
The road up and the road down is one and the same.
You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.