Agesilaus Being Invited Once To

He Who Busies Himself In Mean Occupations, Produces In The Very Pains He Takes About Things Of Little Or No Use, An Evidence Against Himself Of His Negligence And Indisposition To What Is Really Good

It Is A Difficult Task, O Citizens, To Make Speeches To The Belly, Which Has No Ears.

Good Birth Is A Fine Thing, But The Merit Is Our Ancestors.

Hesiod Might As Well Have Kept His Breath To Cool His Pottage.

As In The Case Of Painters, Who Have Undertaken To Give Us A Beautiful And Graceful Figure, Which May Have Some Slight Blemishes, We Do Not Wish Then To Pass Over Such Blemishes Altogether, Nor Yet To Mark Them Too Prominently. The One Would Spoil The Beauty, And The Other Destroy The Likeness Of The Picture.