Whoever would have his body supple, easy and healthful should learn to dance.

I am quite ready to acknowledge . . . that I ought to be grieved at death, if I were not persuaded that I am going to other gods who are wise and good (of this I am as certain as I can be of any such matters), and to men departed who are better than those whom I leave behind. And therefore I do not grieve as I might have done, for I have good hope that there is yet something remaining for the dead.

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.

God does not deal directly with man: it is by means of spirits that all the intercourse and communication of gods with men, both in waking life and in sleep, is carried on.

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

By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.

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