I would fain grow old learning many things.

In a democracy only will the freeman of nature design to dwell.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.

Observe that open loves are held to be more honourable than secret ones, and that the love of the noblest and highest, even if their persons are less beautiful than others, is especially honourable.

There is nothing so delightful as the hearing, or the speaking of truth. For this reason, there is no conversation so agreeable as that of the man of integrity, who hears without any intention to betray, and speaks without any intention to deceive.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.