When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.

More will be accomplished, and better, and with more ease, if every man does what he is best fitted to do, and nothing else.

The Dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is divine in its nature and is the gift of God.

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the unchanging reality which is the object of knowledge.

Avoid compulsion and let early education be a matter of amusement. Young children learn by games; compulsory education cannot remain in the soul.

The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. ... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.