Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

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.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Philosophy is the highest music.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.