Poor mind, from the senses you take your arguments, and then want to defeat them? Your victory is your defeat.

Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets.

The wise man’s home is the universe.

If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures.

I am the most travelled of all my contemporaries; I have extended my field of enquiry wider than anybody else, I have seen more countries and climes, and have heard more speeches of learned men. No one has surpassed me in the composition of lines, according to demonstration, not even the Egyptian knotters of ropes, or geometers.