If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject without the Muses' madness, he will fail, and his self-controlled verses will be eclipsed by the poetry of men who have been driven out of their minds.

Love: a grave mental disease.

It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

Not only is the old man twice a child, but also the man who is drunk.

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.

Music is to the mind as air is to the body.