Every city is a living body.

God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves.

All the dancer's gestures are signs of things, and the dance called rational, because it aptly signifies and displays something over and above the pleasure of the senses.

You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.

Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

Love can be angry... with a kind of anger in which there is no gall, like the dove's and not the ravens.