Concerning the generation of animals akin to them, as hornets and wasps, the facts in all cases are similar to a certain extent, but are devoid of the extraordinary features which characterize bees; this we should expect, for they have nothing divine about them as the bees have.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

Friendship is communion.

If there is any kind of animal which is female and has no male separate from it, it is possible that this may generate a young one from itself. No instance of this worthy of any credit has been observed up to the present at any rate, but one case in the class of fishes makes us hesitate. No male of the so-called erythrinus has ever yet been seen, but females, and specimens full of roe, have been seen. Of this, however, we have as yet no proof worthy of credit.

Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily; for there is little that is pleasant in them.

But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.

The line between lawful and unlawful abortion will be marked by the fact of having sensation and being alive.