What if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine,... the man becoming in that communion, the friend of God,... ?

They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims which are on every tongue- 'know thyselP and 'Nothing overmuch.'

The cause of all sins in every case lies in the person's excessive love of self.

There's a victory and defeat-the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats-which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise.

He whom Love touches not walks in darkness.

Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination.