The greater the power that deigns to serve you, the more honor it demands of you.
The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.
To Believe without evidence and demonstration is an act of ignorance and folly
Every pleasure or pain has a sort of rivet with which it fastens the soul to the body and pins it down and makes it corporeal, accepting as true whatever the body certifies.
Better to do a little well, then a great deal badly.
The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.