God ever geometrizes.
The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
The mortal nature is seeking as far as is possible to be everlasting and immortal: and this is only to be attained by generation, because the new is always left in the place of the old.
The first and the best victory is to conquer self.
To win over your bad self is the grandest and foremost of victories.
The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage.