| Quotes |
Topic |
| Imitation | He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is sure to give his name to a glassy sea. |
| Immortality | The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die, she enthrones him in the heavens. |
| Insanity | He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease. |
| Insanity | Who then is sane? He who is not a fool. |
| Insanity | Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad. |
| Insanity | I teach that all are men are mad. |
| Intemperance | What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle. |
| Judges | A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth. |
| Judgment | Mad in the judgment of the mob, sane, perhaps, in yours. |
| Laughter | For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres. |
| Love of Country | What exile from his country is able to escape from himself? |
| Lying | Splendidly mendacious. |
| Misers | The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains. |
| Modesty | What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth? |
| Monuments | I have reared a memorial more enduring than brass, and loftier than the regal structure of the pyramids, which neither the corroding shower nor the powerless north wind can destroy, no, not even unending years nor the flight of time itself. I shall not entirely die. The greater part of me shall escape oblivion. |
| Monuments | Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders. |
| Mountains | What will this boaster produce worthy of this mouthing? The mountains are in labor, a ridiculous mouse will be born. |
| Mountains | To pile Pelion upon Olympus. |
| Necessity | Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest. |
| Nobility | A noble pair of brothers. |
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