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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.
Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
Justice means minding one’s own business and not meddling with other men’s concerns.
A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.