So the well educated man can learn to sing and dance well.

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

The truth is that we isolate a particular kind of love and appropriate it for the name of love, which really belongs to a wider whole.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

You ought not attempt to cure the eyes without the head, or the head without the body, so neither ought you attempt to cure the body without the soul.

To be at once exceedingly wealthy and good is impossible.

Music is to the mind as air is to the body.