Dancing is as old as love.

The subject matter is autobiographical, it's all to do with hope and memory and sensuality and involvement, really.

There is no happiness without tears, no life without death. Beware! I am going to make you cry.

The wealth of the soul is the only true wealth.

I'll be reading books until the next challenger arrives. That will calm my nerves, so that I may deal with all situations without panicking.

The poor wretches have convinced themselves that they are going to be immortal and live for all time, by worshipping that crucified sophist and living under his laws...they receive these doctrines by tradition, without any definite evidence. So if any charlatan or trickster comes among them, he quickly acquires wealth by imposing upon these simple people.

Avarice is a cursed vice: offer a man enough gold, and he will part with his own small hoard of food, however great his hunger.