Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.

All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world

In seeking for justice men seek for the mean or neutral, for the law is the mean. Again, customary laws have more weight, and relate to more important matters, than written laws, and a man may be a safer ruler than the written law, but not safer than the customary law.

In all things which have a plurality of parts, and which are not a total aggregate but a whole of some sort distinct from the parts, there is some cause.

The soul suffers when the body is diseased or traumatized, while the body suffers when the soul is ailing.

Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs.

The secret to humor is surprise.