For we do not think that we know a thing until we are acquainted with its primary conditions or first principles, and have carried our analysis as far as its simplest elements.

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

The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.

One thing alone not even God can do,To make undone whatever hath been done.

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

Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.

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