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Music gives wings to the mind and flight to the imagination.

Take a look around, then, and see that none of the uninitiated are listening. Now by the uninitiated I mean the people who believe in nothing but what they can grasp in their hands, and who will not allow that action or generation or anything invisible can have real existence.

Watch a man at play for an hour and you can learn more about him than in talking to him for a year.

Music is to the mind as air is to the body.

In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together. With these means, man can attain perfection.

Your dog is your only philosopher.

Discordance is evil. Harmony is virtue.

The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.'

Health is a consumation of a love affair of all the organs of the body.

The cure of the part should not be attempted without the cure of the whole.

Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being

Are these things good for any other reason except that they end in pleasure, and get rid of and avert pain? Are you looking to any other standard but pleasure and pain when you call them good?

He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act

From all wild beasts, a child is the most difficult to handle.

Don't quarrel with your parents even if you are on the right.

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.

Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow... even if that someone is yourself!

Cooking is a form of flattery....a mischievous, deceitful, mean and ignoble activity, which cheats us by shapes and colors, by smoothing and draping.

If the head and the body are to be well, you must begin by curing the soul.

Because it is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.