On the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

In actuality, no one ever sank so deep that he could not sink deeper, and there may be one or many who sank deeper. So it is always possible to be happy and grateful that things are not worse!

Be that self which one truly is.

And if something should be found, particularly in the first part of the dissertation, that one is generally not accustomed to come across in scholarly writings, the reader must forgive my jocundity, just as I, in order to lighten the burden, sometimes sing at my work.

The reign of the tyrant ends with his death, and the reign of the martyr starts with it.

I would rather be a swineherd, understood by the swine, than a poet misunderstood by men.