Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight one….

To begin is the most important part of any quest and by far the most courageous..

God forever geometrizes..

When you feel grateful, you become great, and eventually attract great things..

Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up..

Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things ….

To win over your bad self is the grandest and foremost of victories..

Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination..

To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat..

The choice of souls was in most cases based on their own experience of a previous life... Knowledge easily acquired is that which the enduing self ha….

Nothing ever is, everything is becoming..

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another..

Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The state is like a hive of b….

Do you, like a skilful weigher, put into the balance the pleasures and the pains, near and distant, and weigh them, and then say which outweighs the ….

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all..

Music is that which takes silence and brings it to life..

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back..

Love is a grave mental illness..

Man's greatest victory is over oneself..

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories..

The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he..