Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.

Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.

A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.

I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power.

Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul

It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary.

May I deem the wise man rich, and may I have such a portion of gold as none but a prudent man can either bear or employ.