Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.

We do not learn, and that what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

Knowledge of the soul is the only universal truth and the only wisdom - all other knowledge is transient.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories... The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

Better a good enemy than a bad friend.

A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.

Harmony sinks deep into the recesses of the soul and takes its strongest hold there, bringing grace also to the body & mind as well. Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything. It is the essence of order.