The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the unchanging reality which is the object of knowledge.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

When the mind's eye rests on objects illuminated by truth and reality, it understands and comprehends them, and functions intelligently; but when it turns to the twilight world of change and decay, it can only form opinions, its vision is confused and its beliefs shifting, and it seems to lack intelligence.

When the citizens of a society can see and hear their leaders, then that society should be seen as one.

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.

As to the artists, do we not know that he only of them whom love inspires has the light of fame?-he whom love touches not walks in darkness.

The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.