Man's greatest victory is over oneself.

Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic proportions that it shares with the world soul of the cosmos.

The function of the wing is to take what is heavy and raise it up in the region above.

The mere athlete becomes too much of a savage.

May not the wolf, as the proverb says, claim a hearing?

A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

Vision, in my view, is the cause of the greatest benefit to us, inasmuch as none of the accounts now given concerning the Universe would ever have been given if men had not seen the stars or the sun or the heavens. But as it is, the vision of day and night and of months and circling years has created the art of number and has given us not only the notion of Time but also means of research into the nature of the Universe. From these we have procured Philosophy in all its range, than which no greater boon ever has come or will come, by divine bestowal, unto the race of mortals.