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.

A lover's soul lives in the body of his mistress.

There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every latent vice.

When I myself had twice or thrice made a resolute resistance unto anger, the like befell me that did the Thebans; who, having once foiled the Lacedaemonians (who before that time had held themselves invincible), never after lost so much as one battle which they fought against them.

The state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting.

Oh, what a world full of pain we create, for a little taste upon the tongue.

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