Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets.
Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
Life unexamined, is not worth living.
If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
Fortune provides a man's table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.