Don't ask a poet to explain himself. He cannot.

He who is learning and learning and doesn't apply what he knows is like the one who is plowing and plowing and doesn't seed.

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

The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul. Let no one persuade you to cure the head until he has first given you his soul to be cured, for this is the great error of our day, that physicians first separate the soul from the body.

Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble.

May not the wolf, as the proverb says, claim a hearing?

Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends.