We ought not to listen to those who exhort us, because we are human, to think of human things....We ought rather to take on immortality as much as possible, and do all that we can to live in accordance with the highest element within us; for even if its bulk is small, in its power and value it far exceeds everything.

To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true.

How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms

He who sees things grow from the beginning will have the best view of them.

All things are full of gods.

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

A man can make up his mind quickly when he has only a little to make up.