You ought not attempt to cure the eyes without the head, or the head without the body, so neither ought you attempt to cure the body without the soul.

The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion.

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.

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.

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.

What essence is to generation, that truth is to belief.

Whence comes war and fighting, and factions? Whence but from the body and the lust of the body? Wars are occasioned by the love of money, and money has to be acquired for the same and service of the body.