Suppose, then, that all men were sick or deranged, save one or two of them who were healthy and of right mind. It would then be the latter two who would be thought to be sick and deranged and the former not!

And of course, the brain is not responsible for any of the sensations at all. The correct view is that the seat and source of sensation is the region of the heart.

The sun, moving as it does, sets up processes of change and becoming and decay, and by its agency the finest and sweetest water is every day carried up and is dissolved into vapour and rises to the upper region, where it is condensed again by the cold and so returns to the earth. This, as we have said before, is the regular course of nature.

A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.

What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess in common with others.

That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it

Happiness involves engagement in activities that promote one's highest potentials.