To win over your bad self is the grandest and foremost of victories.

The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.

Thus does the Muse herself move men divinely inspired, and through them thus inspired a Chain hangs together of others inspired divinely likewise.

Happiness springs from doing good and helping others.

. . . you did not seem to me over-fond of money. And this is the way in general with those who have not made it themselves, while those who have are twice as fond of it as anyone else. For just as poets are fond of their own poems, and fathers of their own children, so money-makers become devoted to money, not only because, like other people, they find it useful, but because it's their own creation.

Man never legislates,but destinies and accidents,happening in all sorts of ways,legislate in all sorts of ways.

. . . the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth.