Every action has its pleasures and its price.
The years wrinkle our skin, but lack of enthusiasm wrinkles our soul.
Not by wisdom do they [poets] make what they compose, but by a gift of nature and an inspiration similar to that of the diviners and the oracles.
A disorderly mob is no more an army than a heap of building materials is a house
To know, is to know that you know nothing.
By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful.