Thus does the Muse herself move men divinely inspired, and through them thus inspired a Chain hangs together of others inspired divinely likewise.

Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.

There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

It behooves those who take the young to task to leave them room for excuse, lest they drive them to be hardened by too much rebuke.

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.

Let men of all ranks whether they are successful, or unsuccessful, whether they triumph or not; let them do their duty, and rest satisfied.