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

Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.

All things happen by virtue of necessity.

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.

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

According to convention there is a sweet and a bitter, a hot and a cold, and according to convention, there is an order. In truth, there are atoms and a void.

Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.