Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent.
A work well begun is half-ended.
What is better adapted than the festive use of wine in the first place to test and in the second place to train the character of a man, if care be taken in the use of it? What is there cheaper or more innocent?
Pepper is small in quantity and great in virtue.
Arguments, like men, are often pretenders.
He who without the Muse's madness in his soul comes knocking at the door of poesy and thinks that art will make him anything fit to be called a poet, finds that the poetry which he indites in his sober senses is beaten hollow by the poetry of madmen.