With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.
A human being is a naturally political [animal].
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five.
A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.