For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

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

Come back with your shield - or on it

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.

But the Lacedaemonians, who make it their first principle of action to serve their country's interest, know not any thing to be just or unjust by any measure but that.

Talkativeness has another plague attached to it, even curiosity; for praters wish to hear much that they may have much to say.

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