Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.

Also, that which is desirable in itself is more desirable than what is desirable per accidens.

. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.

Nature does nothing without a purpose. In children may be observed the traces and seeds of what will one day be settled psychological habits, though psychologically a child hardly differs for the time being from an animal.

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

A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave... The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities - a natural defectiveness.