In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.

Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.

To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.

It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers or philosophers.

Love is at once more animal than friendship and more divine.

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.