Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

After victory, you have more enemies.

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.

Man was born for two things--thinking and acting.

It is not the place that maketh the person, but the person that maketh the place honorable.

Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.

Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.