Some believe it to be just friends wanting, as if to be healthy enough to wish health.
Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.
The fool tells me his reason; the wise man persuades me with my own.
If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature.
No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
The same ideas, one must believe, recur in men's minds not once or twice but again and again.