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

Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

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

He who is learning and learning and doesn't apply what he knows is like the one who is plowing and plowing and doesn't seed.

He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power.