To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity.
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.
Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones.
Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.
Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.
And so long as they were at war, their power was preserved, but when they had attained empire they fell, for of the arts of peace they knew nothing, and had never engaged in any employment higher than war.