For when there are no words, it is very difficult to recognize the meaning of the harmony and rhythm, or to see any worldly object is imitated by them.

He who advises a sick man, whose manner of life is prejudicial to health, is clearly bound first of all to change his patient's manner of life.

For the poet is a light winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses and the mind is no longer with him. When he has not attained this state he is powerless and unable to utter his oracles.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all.

May I do to others as I would that they should do unto me.

The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.

Mathematics is the language in which the gods talk to people.