Grief is not in the nature of things, but in opinion.

Apollo, sacred guard of earth's true core, Whence first came frenzied, wild prophetic word.

It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life.

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

We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink.

If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third.

Within the character of the citizen, lies the welfare of the nation.