Thus does the Muse herself move men divinely inspired, and through them thus inspired a Chain hangs together of others inspired divinely likewise.

I know nothing more worthy of a man's ambition than that his son be the best of men.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

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.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.

Not only is the old man twice a child, but also the man who is drunk.