Gout is not relieved by a fine shoe nor a hangnail by a costly ring nor migraine by a tiara.

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.

Nature without learning is like a blind man; learning without Nature, like a maimed one; practice without both, incomplete. As in agriculture a good soil is first sought for, then a skilful husbandman, and then good seed; in the same way nature corresponds to the soil, the teacher to the husbandman, precepts and instruction to the seed.

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

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men.

A healer of others, himself diseased.