Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character.

He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough men of outstanding virtue.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

Of old, the demagogue was also a general, and then democracies changed into tyrannies. Most of the ancient tyrants were originally demagogues. They are not so now, but they were then; and the reason is that they were generals and not orators, for oratory had not yet come into fashion.

And this lies in the nature of things: What people are potentially is revealed in actuality by what they produce.