The examined life is the only life worth living.

If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are beauty and virtue the world over.

I only know how little I know

Virtue does not come from wealth, but wealth, and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

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.

My friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves