Not every love, but only that which has a noble purpose, is noble and worthy of praise.

Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or anything better than cohesion and unity?

Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.

You need some knowledge to recognize knowledge, so where does the first knowledge come from?

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.

What a handsome face he had: but if he were naked you would forget he had a face, he is so beautiful in every way.

Better to complete a small task well, than to do much imperfectly.