If the head and the body are to be well, you must begin by curing the soul.
We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
And what do you say of lovers of wine... they are glad of any pretext of drinking any wine
Music is that which takes silence and brings it to life.
Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.