Word is a shadow of a deed.

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

Fortune provides a man's table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.

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

The whole Earth is at the hand of the wise man, since the fatherland of an elevated soul is the Universe.

Men should strive to think much and know little.

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