We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us
Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.
People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just.
There is simple ignorance, which is the source of lighter offenses, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by a conceit of wisdom.
In educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain
Concerning the generation of animals akin to them, as hornets and wasps, the facts in all cases are similar to a certain extent, but are devoid of the extraordinary features which characterize bees; this we should expect, for they have nothing divine about them as the bees have.