All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.
The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.
Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.
When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence.
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us
Youth loves honor and victory more than money.