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And what do you say of lovers of wine... they are glad of any pretext of drinking any wine
We ought to live sacrificing, and singing, and dancing.
The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be neglected, he walks lamely through life and returns good for nothing to the world below.
Be kind. Every person you meet _x000D_ is fighting a difficult battle.
Give me a different set of mothers and I will give you a different world
No attempt of curing the body should be made without curing the soul
Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.
I fast for greater physical and mental efficiency
Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.
All wars are fought for the sake of getting money.
The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect - it is too exciting.
Lord of Lords, grant us the good whether we pray for it or not, but evil keep from us, even though we pray for it.
All loves should be simply stepping stones to the love of God. So it was with me; and blessed be his name for his great goodness and mercy.
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.
Love is an intermediate state between possession and deprivation.
Man was not made for himself alone
You ought not attempt to cure the eyes without the head, or the head without the body, so neither ought you attempt to cure the body without the soul.
People too smart to get involved in politics are doomed to live in societies run by people who aren't.
A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.
The right question is usually more important than the right answer.
The man who arrives at the doors of artistic creation with none of the madness of the Muses would be convinced that technical ability alone was enough to make an artist... what that man creates by means of reason will pale before the art of inspired beings.
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