Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good.

Here and elsewhere we shall not obtain the best insight into things until we actually see them growing from the beginning.

Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole.

The law does not expressly permit suicide, and what it does not permit it forbids.

To give away money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man's power nor an easy matter.

The continuum is that which is divisible into indivisibles that are infinitely divisible.

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