No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.
These differences, they say, are three: shape, arrangement, and position; because they hold that what is differs only in contour, inter-contact, inclination.
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets.