Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.

Its as if you think you'd never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined

The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.

Music and dance are all you need.

It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don't want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.

...all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.

No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.