Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.

Everyone has his besetting sin.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

How great an evil do you see that may have been announced by you against the Republic? - Videtis quantum scelus contra rem publicam vobis nuntiatum sit?