Life cannot be lived, and understood, simultaneously.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god.

. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.

There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the stock be good, there springs up for a time a succession of splendid men; and then comes a period of barrenness.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.