Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated.

As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy.

As a breath of wind or some echo rebounds from smooth, hard surfaces and returns to the source from which it issued, so the stream of beauty passes back into its possessor through his eyes, which is its natural route to the soul; arriving there and setting him all aflutter, it waters the passages of the feathers and causes the wings to grow, and fills the soul of the loved one in his turn with love.

Better a good enemy than a bad friend.

Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.

Science is nothing but perception.