Finally, if nothing can be truly asserted, even the following claim would be false, the claim that there is no true assertion.

Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Exempt are only those which dig into the hearts of men by love.

This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time. Seneca Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

[I]t is rather the case that we desire something because we believe it to be good than that we believe a thing to be good because we desire it. It is the thought that starts things off.

But then in what way are things called good? They do not seem to be like the things that only chance to have the same name. Are goods one then by being derived from one good or by all contributing to one good, or are they rather one by analogy? Certainly as sight is in the body, so is reason in the soul, and so on in other cases.