Wealth does not bring excellence, but that wealth comes from excellence.

The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated.

Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.

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 eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.

No one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.

Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.