The proud man is forsaken of God.

The man who hath music in his soul will be most in love with the loveliest.

And is it not true that in like manner a leader of the people who, getting control of a docile mob, does not withhold his hand from the shedding of tribal blood, but by the customary unjust accusations brings a citizen into court and assassinates him, blotting out a human life, and with unhallowed tongue and lips that have tasted kindred blood, banishes and slays and hints at the abolition of debts and the partition of lands.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.

Those whose hearts are fixed on Reality itself deserve the title of Philosophers.

Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul