No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

No one chooses what does not rest with himself, but only what he thinks can be attained by his own act.

Since music has so much to do with the molding of character, it is necessary that we teach it to our children.

The investigation of the truth is in one way hard, in another easy. An indication of this is found in the fact that no one is able to attain the truth adequately, while, on the other hand, no one fails entirely, but everyone says something true about the nature of all things, and while individually they contribute little or nothing to the truth, by the union of all a considerable amount is amassed.

The young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine.

Health is a matter of choice, not a mystery of chance

For the more limited, if adequate, is always preferable.