We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is a habit.
I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.
Creation is man's immortality and brings him nearest to the gods.
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
Those who want the fewest things are nearest to the gods.