There's many a slip between the cup and the lip.

Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul...when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued withthe same passion; and if over a long time he habitually listens to music that rouses ignoble passions, his whole character will be shaped to an ignoble form.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life

The good man is he for whom, because he is virtuous, the things that are absolutely good are good; it is also plain that his use of these goods must be virtuous and in the absolute sense good.

Through discipline comes freedom.

Earthworms are the intenstines of the soil.