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.
A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
You have the chief spark of your health's fire, for you have true knowledge of the hand that guides the universe.
In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature but in men it is a vice.
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.