Nothing made the horse so fat as the king's eye.

Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice.

The talkative listen to no one, for they are ever speaking. And the first evil that attends those who know not to be silent is that they hear nothing.

What can they suffer that do not fear to die?

To the Greeks, the supreme function of music was to "praise the gods and educate the youth". In Egypt... Initiatory music was heard only in Temple rites because it carried the vibratory rhythms of other worlds and of a life beyond the mortal.

Friendship is the most pleasant of all things, and nothing more glads the heart of man.

Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.