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.

A true artist is someone who gives birth to a new reality.

My plainness of speech makes people hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.

The natural function of the wing is to soar upwards and carry that which is heavy up to the place where dwells the race of gods. More than any other thing that pertains to the body it partakes of the nature of the divine.

For when there are no words, it is very difficult to recognize the meaning of the harmony and rhythm, or to see any worldly object is imitated by them.