Olympics

As in the Olympic Games it is not the most beautiful and the strongest that are crowned but those who compete (for it is some of these that are victorious), so those who act win, and rightly win, the noble and good things in life.
Aristotele

Details

Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.
Leonardo da Vinci

Poetry

Nature is nothing but an enigmatic poetry.
Michel de Montaigne

Soul, time & space

The soul goes through time and space, and it is not as the eye, that believes that the sky starts where the horizon begins.
Ambrogio Bazzero

Pleasant life

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and honorably and justly, and it is impossible to live wisely and honorably and justly without living pleasantly. Whenever any one of these is lacking, when, for instance, the man is not able to live wisely, though he lives honorably and justly, it is impossible for him to live a pleasant life.
Epicurus