You are mistaken, my friend, if you think that a man who is worth anything ought to spend his time weighing up the prospects of life and death. He has only one thing to consider in performing any action - that is, whether he is acting rightly or wrongly, like a good man or a bad one.

The Dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is divine in its nature and is the gift of God.

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

The souls of people, on their way to Earth-life, pass through a room full of lights; each takes a taper - often only a spark - to guide it in the dim country of this world. But some souls, by rare fortune, are detained longer - have time to grasp a handful of tapers, which they weave into a torch. These are the torch-bearers of humanity - its poets, seers and saints, who lead and lift the race out of darkness, toward the light. They are the law-givers and saviors, the light-bringers, way-showers and truth-tellers, and without them, humanity would lose its way in the dark.

If it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice.

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.