Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.

Men who marry wives very much superior to themselves are not so truly husbands to their wives as they are unawares made slaves to their position.

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

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.

Either is both, and Both is neither.

It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.

Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.