He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.
The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he.
And what do you say of lovers of wine... they are glad of any pretext of drinking any wine
Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.
He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.
Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if they have had an arithmetical training, although they may derive no other advantage from it, always become much quicker than they would have been.