Excellent things are rare.

Knowledge of the soul is the only universal truth and the only wisdom - all other knowledge is transient.

Music is that which takes silence and brings it to life.

Where reverence is, there is fear; for he who has a feeling of reverence and shame about the commission of any action, fears and is afraid of an ill reputation.

The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man.

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.