Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.

If you are willing to reflect on the courage and moderation of other people, you will find them strange.

An hour of play is worth a lifetime of conversation.

Is what is moral commanded by God because it is moral, or is it moral because it is commanded by God?

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

Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or anything better than cohesion and unity?

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.