Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.

There are no experienced young people. Time makes experience.

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

But also philosophy is not about perceptible substances they, you see, are prone to destruction.

The honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue.

The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.