All things are in fate, yet all things are not decreed by fate.
Better to complete a small task well, than to do much imperfectly.
Moderation, which consists in indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
You get to know someone better by playing for an hour than by talking for a year.
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.