Health is a consumation of a love affair of all the organs of the body.

Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.

I was stupid enough to think that we ought to speak the truth about each person eulogised, and to make this the foundation, and from these truths to choose the most beautiful things and arrange them in the most elegant way; and I was quite proud to think how well I should speak, because I believed that I knew the truth.

For the rhapsode ought to interpret the mind of the poet to his hearers, but how can he interpret him well unless he knows what he means?

But of the heaven which is above the heavens, what earthly poet ever did or ever will sing worthily?

Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.

He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.