Madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.
Socrates said that, from above, the Earth looks like one of those twelve-patched leathern balls.
Man is the plumeless genus of bipeds, birds are the plumed.
Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.
The man who hath music in his soul will be most in love with the loveliest.
Lessons, however, that enter the soul against its will never grow roots and will never be preserved inside it.