“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.”
Imagination“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.”
Age“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.”
Imagination“Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.”
Inspirational“There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.”
Good“The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.”
Education“Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.”
Equality“Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.”
Great“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.”
Education“We do not learn and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.”
Learning“Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?”
Death“He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.”
Power“A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.”
Good“Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.”
Knowledge“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”
Art“Wise men speak because they have something to say Fools because they have to say something.”
Men“When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.”
Fear“Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.”
Legal“Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”
Knowledge“Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.”
History“The greatest wealth is to live content with little.”
Great“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.”
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