"The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings."

"Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty."

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

"Everything that deceives may be said to enchant."

"The like is not the friend of the like in as far as he is like; still the good may be the friend of the good in as far as he is good."

"I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning."

"No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death."

"Excellence must be the health and wellbeing of the soul."

"Men say that we ought not to enquire into the supreme God and the nature of the universe, nor busy ourselves in searching out the causes of things, and that such enquiries are impious; whereas the very opposite is the truth."

"He who is not a good servant will not be a good master."

"Beauty is the splendor of truth."

"The desires of the worthless many are controlled by the desires and knowledge of the decent few."