Those who refuse to engage in politics will be led by their inferiors
The God of Love lives in a state of need.
I fear this is not the right exchange to attain virtue, to exchange pleasures for pleasures, pains for pains and fears for fears, the greater for the less like coins, but that the only valid currency for which all these things should be exchanged is wisdom.
The soul should concentrate itself by itself.
Music is to the mind as air is to the body.
More will be accomplished, and better, and with more ease, if every man does what he is best fitted to do, and nothing else.