To think truly is noble and to be deceived is base.

The three wishes of every man: to be healthy, to be rich by honest means, and to be beautiful.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

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

Such, Echecrates, was the end of our comrade, who was, we may fairly say, of all those whom we knew in our time, the bravest and also the wisest and most upright man.

Being well satisfied that, for a man who thinks himself to be somebody, there is nothing more disgraceful than to hold himself up as honored, not on his own account, but for the sake of his forefathers. Yet hereditary honors are a noble and splendid treasure to descendants.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.