To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know.

No town can live peacefully whatever its laws when its citizens do nothing but feast and drink and tire themselves out in the cares of love

A wise ignorance is an essential part of knowledge.

Science is nothing but perception.

Nothing ever is, everything is becoming.

For not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine. Had he learned by rules of art, he would have known how to speak not of one theme only, but of all; and therefore God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that we who hear them may know them to be speaking not of themselves who utter these priceless words in a state of unconsciousness, but that God himself is the speaker, and that through them he is conversing with us.

Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.