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

The greater part of instruction is being reminded of things you already know.

Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic proportions that it shares with the world soul of the cosmos.

It seems to me that whatever else is beautiful apart from asbsolute beauty is beautiful because it partakes of that absolute beauty, and for no other reason. Do you accept this kind of causality?

It is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible.

A person who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he or she ought only to consider whether in doing anything he or she is doing right or wrong- acting the part of a good person or a bad person.

Prefer diligence before idleness, unless you esteem rust above brightness.