All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely.

The ridiculous is produced by any defect that is unattended by pain, or fatal consequences; thus, an ugly and deformed countenance does not fail to cause laughter, if it is not occasioned by pain.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

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.

Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.

Where the laws are not supreme, there demagogues spring up.