It seems that God took away the minds of poets that they might better express His.

Neither I nor any other man should, on trial or in way, contrive to avoid death at any cost.

If you want to be wrong then follow the masses.

Beloved Pan and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and the inward man be one.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.