Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
As to the artists, do we not know that he only of them whom love inspires has the light of fame?-he whom love touches not walks in darkness.
The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage.
No attempt of curing the body should be made without curing the soul
The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.
We will be better men, braver and less idle, if we believe that one must search for the things one does not know, rather than if we believe that it is not possible to find out what we do not know and that we must not look for it.