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

Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.

Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.

Men find happiness neither by means of the body nor through possessions, but through uprightness and wisdom.

It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.

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

We know nothing in reality; for truth lies in an abyss.