All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage.

Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.

All wars are fought for the sake of getting money.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

In an honest man there is always something of a child.

Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night.