If you don't know how to serve men, why worry about serving the gods?
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
Man shoot at nothing, sure to hit it.
In a district of ten families, there must be someone as honorable and sincere as I, but none as fond of learning.
Let mourning stop when one's grief is fully expressed.
A gentleman is calm and spacious: the vulgar are always fretting.