The true musician is attuned to a fairer harmony than that of the lyre... for he truly has in his own life a harmony of words and deeds arranged in the Dorian mode. Such a one makes me joyous with the sound of his voice, so eager am I in drinking in his words.

Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

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

He whom Love touches not walks in darkness.

A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.

I would fain grow old learning many things.