Music is that which takes silence and brings it to life.

There is also a third kind of madness, which is possession by the Muses, enters into a delicate and virgin soul, and there inspiring frenzy, awakens lyric... But he, who, not being inspired and having no touch of madness in his soul, comes to the door and thinks he will get into the temple by the help of art - he, I say, and his poetry are not admitted; the sane man is nowhere at all when he enters into rivalry with the madman.

Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated.

There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power.

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.

The laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals