Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?

If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.

How can I study from below, that which is above?

High thoughts must have high language.

Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.

You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.

Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.