If you will take my advice you will think little of Socrates, and a great deal more of truth.

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten, imparting grace, and making the soul of him who is rightly educated graceful, or of him who is ill-educated ungraceful.

It is best and easiest not to discredit others but to prepare oneself to be as good as possible.

I alone know I am wise because I alone know I know nothing.

What a lot of things there are a man can do without.

Only the knowledge that comes from inside is the real Knowledge

Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?