Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.
Lycurgus being asked why he, who in other respects appeared to be so zealous for the equal rights of men, did not make his government democratical rather than oligarchical, "Go you," replied the legislator, "and try a democracy in your own house.
Oh, what a world full of pain we create, for a little taste upon the tongue.
So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.
Painting is silent poetry.
Real excellence, indeed, is most recognized when most openly looked into.