My brother, are war and battle evil? Necessary, however, is the evil; necessary are the envy and the distrust and the back-biting among the virtues.

We talk about taking "pleasure in a thing": but in truth it is pleasure in ourselves, mediated by a thing.

By means of music the very passions, enjoy themselves.

The wittiest authors evoke a barely perceptible smile.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

How do you expect to learn to dance when you have not even learned to walk! And above the dancer is still the flyer and his bliss.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.