He whom Love touches not walks in darkness.

Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are divine.

Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets; because they were good workmen they thought that they also knew all sorts of high matters, and this defect in them overshadowed their wisdom.

It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.