Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.
Pleasure is the bait of sin
If there is a good and wise God, then there also exists a progress of humanity toward perfection.
Knowledge is the rediscovering of our own insight.
Music is to the mind as air is to the body.
The true musician is attuned to a fairer harmony than that of the lyre... for he truly has in his own life a harmony of words and deeds arranged in the Dorian mode. Such a one makes me joyous with the sound of his voice, so eager am I in drinking in his words.