I must yield to you, for you are irresistible.

If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth.

Misanthropy ariseth from a man trusting another without having sufficient knowledge of his character, and, thinking him to be truthful, sincere, and honourable, finds a little afterwards that he is wicked, faithless, and then he meets with another of the same character. When a man experiences this often, and more particularly from those whom he considered his most dear and best friends, at last, having frequently made a slip, he hates the whole world, and thinks that there is nothing sound at all in any of them.

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.

Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.

You cannot go into the same water twice.