"God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that we who hear them may know them to be speaking not of themselves who utter these priceless words in a state of unconsciousness, but that God himself is the speaker, and that through them he is conversing with us."
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."
"The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift."
"Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death."
"God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that we who hear them may know them to be speaking not of themselves who utter these priceless words in a state of unconsciousness, but that God himself is the speaker, and that through them he is conversing with us."