Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Life cannot be lived, and understood, simultaneously.

Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves.

Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.

Xenophanes states that the fire in Lipara once failed for sixteen years, but returned in the seventeenth year. They say that the lava-stream in Etna is neither flaming nor continuous, but returns only after an interval of many years.

There are three things that are the motives of choice and three that are the motives of avoidance; namely, the noble, the expedient, and the pleasant, and their opposites, the base, the harmful, and the painful. Now in respect of all these the good man is likely to go right and the bad to go wrong, but especially in respect of pleasure; for pleasure is common to man with the lower animals, and also it is a concomitant of all the objects of choice, since both the noble and the expedient appear to us pleasant.

For good is simple, evil manifold.