Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

Where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful.