"An accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men."

"There are three arts which are concerned with all things. One which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them."

"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil."

"We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we're looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven't found it."

"There are three arts which are concerned with all things. One which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them."

"When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income."

"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is god, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but never less, dazzling, passionate, and eternal form."

"Life must be lived as play, playing certain games, making sacrifices, singing and dancing, and then a man will be able to propitiate the gods, and defend himself against his enemies, and win in the contest."

"Philosophy is the highest music."

"He could not harm me, for I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse."