Whence comes war and fighting, and factions? Whence but from the body and the lust of the body? Wars are occasioned by the love of money, and money has to be acquired for the same and service of the body.
Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.
They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.
They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.
The beginning is the chiefest part of any work.
No one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.