The choice of souls was in most cases based on their own experience of a previous life... Knowledge easily acquired is that which the enduing self had in an earlier life, so that it flows back easily.

Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

When you admonish a wrongdoer, do so gently, that it may not lead to hostility.

In an honest man there is always something of a child.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

The man who arrives at the doors of artistic creation with none of the madness of the Muses would be convinced that technical ability alone was enough to make an artist... what that man creates by means of reason will pale before the art of inspired beings.