Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy
You have the chief spark of your health's fire, for you have true knowledge of the hand that guides the universe.
A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature but in men it is a vice.
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate ... can look fortune in the face.