For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates ... in the soul, and overflows from thence, as from the head into the eyes.

The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.

Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.

If you ask: What is the good of education? The answer is easy: Education makes good men and good men act nobly.

Just as bees make honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so do the wise profit from the most difficult of experiences.

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.

Any peace is better than any war