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.
Human beings are curious by nature.
Melancholy men, of all others, are the most witty.
This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.
A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave... The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities - a natural defectiveness.
Speeches are like babies-easy to conceive but hard to deliver.