Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Courage is a kind of salvation.
Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.
There's a victory, and defeat the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.