“I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.”

“So here I am, against my will and yours too, well I know-- no one wants the man who brings bad news.”

“Don't listen when they scoffThat you are too old and I am young,For I am old enough to know betterAnd you are young enough not to care.”

“If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.”

“I still don’t know if this is a good quality or a bad one, to be able to be in the moment and then step out of it.”

“I needed to pass on those secrets to a man I knew well. All my students are terribly virtuous and only show their good qualities. That is dangerous, for virtue often serves to hide vanity, pride and intolerance. That is why I chose the one student I knew really well, the one whose faults I could see most clearly.”