It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Except are only those which dig into the hearts of men by love.

The single harmony produced by all the heavenly bodies singing and dancing together springs from one source and ends by achieving one purpose, and has rightly bestowed the name not of "disordered" but of "ordered universe" upon the whole.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies. p. 188; also reported in various sources as:Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. A true friend is one soul in two bodies. Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Liars ... when they speak the truth they are not believed.

I have gained this by philosophy ... I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.

The roots of education ... are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

For the purposes of poetry a convincing impossibility is preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.