Music Imitates (represents) The Passions

Without Friends No One Would Choose To Live, Though He Had All Other Goods.

For This Reason Poetry Is Something More Philosophical And More Worthy Of Serious Attention Than History.

Worms Are The Intestines Of The Earth.

I Count Him Braver Who Overcomes His Desires Than Him Who Conquers His Enemies; For The Hardest Victory Is Over Self.

Even If We Could Suppose The Citizen Body To Be Virtuous, Without Each Of Them Being So, Yet The Latter Would Be Better, For In The Virtue Of Each The Virtue Of All Is Involved.