Most people do not understand until old age what Plato tells them when they are young.

Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.

It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed as inferior to some one else.

Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty.

Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.