Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.

All men, well interrogated, answer well.

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.

Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful.

And first he will see the shadows best, next the reflections of men and other objects in the water, and then the objects themselves, then he will gaze upon the light of the moon and the stars and the spangled heaven...Last of all he will be able to see the sun.

You get to know someone better by playing for an hour than by talking for a year.

Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of all misfortune.