The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
If you would know contentment, let your deeds be few.
Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.
The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets.