As often as we do good, we offer sacrifices to God.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
In all things which have a plurality of parts, and which are not a total aggregate but a whole of some sort distinct from the parts, there is some cause.
The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to.
God and nature create nothing that does not fulfill a purpose
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.