The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.
He who owns little is little owned.
Heroes are often the most ordinary of men.
We have need to be earth-born as well as heaven-born, gegeneis, as was said of the Titans of old, or in a better sense than they.
He who eats the fruit should at least plant the seed; ay, if possible, a better seed than that whose fruit he has enjoyed.
Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.