Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery.

Our senses don't deceive us: our judgment does

The dignity of art probably appears most eminently with music since it does not have any material that needs to be discounted. Music is all form and content and elevates and ennobles everything that it expresses.

It is opposition that makes us productive.

The passions are like those demons with which Afrasahiab sailed down the Orus. Our only safety consists in keeping them asleep. If they we are lost.

Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive.