To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

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

The offender, who repents, is not yet lost.

Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.

The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.

To a wise man, the whole earth is open; for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth.

Life unexamined, is not worth living.