My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

The body is most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine.

How strange it is that Socrates, after having made the children common, should hinder lovers from carnal intercourse only, but should permit love and familiarities between father and son or between brother and brother, than which nothing can be more unseemly, since even without them love of this sort is improper. How strange, too, to forbid intercourse for no other reason than the violence of the pleasure, as though the relationship of father and son or of brothers with one another made no difference.

The law is reason unaffected by desire.

The hardest victory is the victory over self.

Rightness in our choice of an end is secured by [Moral] Virtue.

He who hath many friends hath none.