Nothing is more unworthy of a wise man, or ought to trouble him more, than to have allowed more time for trifling, and useless things, than they deserve.
Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.
The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.
Music is that which takes silence and brings it to life.
We ought to live sacrificing, and singing, and dancing.
Such, Echecrates, was the end of our comrade, who was, we may fairly say, of all those whom we knew in our time, the bravest and also the wisest and most upright man.