Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.

For as there are misanthropists, or haters of men, there are also misologists, or haters of ideas, and both spring from the same cause, which is ignorance of the world.

They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.

What I say is that 'just' or 'right' means nothing but what is in the interest of the stronger party.

And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?

God is truth and light his shadow.

As to the artists, do we not know that he only of them whom love inspires has the light of fame?-he whom love touches not walks in darkness.