When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.

No grief is so acute but time ameliorates it.

In ancient times music was the foundation of all the sciences. Education was begun with music with the persuasion that nothing could be expected of a man who was ignorant of music.

I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

All great men are partially inspired.

What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.