"All learning has an emotional base."
"A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand."
"Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are divine. A man who uses reminders of these things correctly is always at the highest, most perfect level of initiation, and he is the only one who is perfect as perfect can be. He stands outside human concerns and draws close to the divine; ordinary people think he is disturbed and rebuke him for this, unaware that he is possessed by god."
"The constrained performance of bodily labour does, it is true, exert no evil influence on the body; but in the case of the mind, no study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory."
"Hope,' he says, 'cherishes the soul of him who lives justice and holiness, and is the nurse of his age and the companion of his journey; hope which is mightiest to sway the restless soul of man."
"Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes."
"It's not at all uncommon to find a person's desires compelling him to go against his reason, and to see him cursing himself and venting his passion on the source of the compulsion within him. It's as if there were two warring factions, with passion fighting on the side of reason."
"You donβt seem to love money too much. And those who havenβt made their own money are usually like you. But those who have made it for themselves are twice as fond of it as those who havenβt."
"The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable."
"Music then is simply the result of the effects of Love on rhythm and harmony."
