Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.
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.
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
Love is a serious mental disease.
According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.