Envy creates the beginning of strife.
Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.
To speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire.
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.