“The hottest love has the coldest end.”

“Every action has its pleasures and its price.”

“For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses, and the mind is no longer in him: when he has not attained to this state, he is powerless and is unable to utter his oracles.”

“There is no solution; seek it lovingly ”

“He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.”

“He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.”

“One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.”