The Mind Is Exercised By The Variety

Without Natural Gifts Technical Rules Are Useless.

Though Ambition In Itself Is A Vice, Yet It Is Often The Parent Of Virtues. [lat., Licet Ipsa Vitium Sit Ambitio, Frequenter Tamen Causa Virtutem Est.]

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.

Consequently The Student Who Is Devoid Of Talent Will Derive No More Profit From This Work Than Barren Soil From A Treatise On Agriculture.

There Is No One Who Would Not Rather Appear To Know Than To Be Taught.