We can do nothing without the body, let us always take care that it is in the best condition to sustain us.

Those who want the fewest things are nearest to the gods.

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.

We can do nothing without the body, let us always take care that it is in the best condition to sustain us.

It is a base thing for a man to wax old in careless self-neglect before he has lifted up his eyes and seen what manner of man he was made to be, in the full perfection of bodily strength and beauty. But these glories are withheld from him who is guilty of self-neglect, for they are not wont to blaze forth unbidden.

It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.