The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.

Victory puts us on a level with heaven.

What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others

So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.

If anyone decided to call the sea Neptune, and corn Ceres, and to misapply the name of Bacchus rather than to give liquor its right name, so be it; and let him dub the round world "Mother of the Gods" so long as he is careful not really to infest his mind with base superstitions.

From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.

No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings - the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.