Through discipline comes freedom.

No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not flatter them.

If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for the sake of man.

That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.

No science ever defends its first principles.

There is also a doubt as to what is to be the supreme power in the state: - Is it the multitude? Or the wealthy? Or the good? Or the one best man? Or a tyrant?

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