Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination.

For the poet is a light winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses and the mind is no longer with him. When he has not attained this state he is powerless and unable to utter his oracles.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Not every love, but only that which has a noble purpose, is noble and worthy of praise.

To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

...the Gods too love a joke.