As the proverb says, "a good beginning is half the business" and "to have begun well" is praised by all.

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.

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

For not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine. Had he learned by rules of art, he would have known how to speak not of one theme only, but of all; and therefore God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that we who hear them may know them to be speaking not of themselves who utter these priceless words in a state of unconsciousness, but that God himself is the speaker, and that through them he is conversing with us.

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

Harmony is a symphony, and symphony is an agreement; but an agreement of disagreements while they disagree there cannot be; you cannot harmonize that which disagrees.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.