"Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?"
"The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift."
"God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods..."
"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."
"He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature."
"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for."