Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Just as at the Olympic games it is not the handsomest or strongest men who are crowned with victory but the successful competitors, so in life it is those who act rightly who carry off all the prizes and rewards.
Some believe it to be just friends wanting, as if to be healthy enough to wish health.
Where the laws are not supreme, there demagogues spring up.
All men by nature desire knowledge.
We do not know a truth without knowing its cause.