The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.

A free soul ought not to pursue any study slavishly, for nothing that is learned under compulsion stays with the mind.

Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.

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.

I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.

He is the richest who is content with the least.

You never know a line is crooked unless you have a straight one to put next to it.