Life unexamined, is not worth living.
Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.
No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
The man who is fortunate in his choice of son-in-law gains a son; the man unfortunate in his choice loses his daughter also.
Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets.
It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new.