We must not listen to those who advise us 'being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to think mortal thoughts' but must put on immortality as much as possible and strain every nerve to live according to that best part of us, which, being small in bulk, yet much more in its power and honour surpasses all else.

Of the irrational part of the soul again one division appears to be common to all living things, and of a vegetative nature.

The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail

Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.

Again, the male is by nature superior, and the female inferior; and the one rules, and the other is ruled; this principle, of necessity, extends to all mankind.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.