When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Necessity... the mother of invention.
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.
If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
Charity creates a multitude of sins.
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
The good is the beautiful.
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.