For the rhapsode ought to interpret the mind of the poet to his hearers, but how can he interpret him well unless he knows what he means?

When you feel grateful, you become great, and eventually attract great things.

Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.

A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

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.

The ludicrous state of solid geometry made me pass over this branch.