It behooves those who take the young to task to leave them room for excuse, lest they drive them to be hardened by too much rebuke.
The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
Trees and fields tell me nothing: men are my teachers.
For when there are no words, it is very difficult to recognize the meaning of the harmony and rhythm, or to see any worldly object is imitated by them.
Even the gods love jokes.
Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.