Don't quarrel with your parents even if you are on the right.
If you are willing to reflect on the courage and moderation of other people, you will find them strange.
Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.
It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary.
Don't ask a poet to explain himself. He cannot.
Music gives wings to the mind and flight to the imagination.