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Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.

The best of healers is good cheer.

The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Learn what you are and be such.

Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.

Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.

The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal.

Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.