Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.
They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.
Mathematics is the language in which the gods talk to people.
Neither do the ignorant love wisdom or desire to become wise; for this is the grievous thing about ignorance, that those who are neither good nor beautiful think they are good enough, and do not desire that which they do not think they are lacking.
He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age
States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.