It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.

It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new.

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

By convention sweet is sweet, by convention bitter is bitter, by convention hot is hot, by convention cold is cold, by convention color is color. But in reality there are atoms and the void. That is, the objects of sense are supposed to be real and it is customary to regard them as such, but in truth they are not. Only the atoms and the void are real.

Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.

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