We are too feeble and sluggish to make our way out to the upper limit of the air. If someone could reach the summit, or put on wings and fly aloft, when he put up his head he would see the world above, just as fishes see our world when they put up their heads out of the sea; and if his nature were able to bear the sight, he would recognize that that is the true heaven.

Better a good enemy than a bad friend.

When you feel grateful, you become great, and eventually attract great things.

And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for our diseases.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination.

They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims which are on every tongue- 'know thyselP and 'Nothing overmuch.'