Give me a different set of mothers and I will give you a different world

The music masters familiarize children's minds with rhythms and melodies, thus making them more civilized, more balanced, better adjusted in themselves, and more capable in whatever they say or do, for rhythm and harmony are essential to the whole of life.

Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are divine.

Now nothing can be more important than that the work of a soldier should be well done.

A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.

The ultimate design of the Mysteries ... was to lead us back to the principles from which we descended, ... a perfect enjoyment of intellectual [spiritual] good.