Friends enhance our ability to think and act.

It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.

Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.

Happiness is activity.

This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time. Seneca Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity.

We must speak first about the division of land and about those who cultivate it: who should they be and what kind of person? We do not agree with those who have said that property should be communally owned, but we do believe that there should be a friendly arrangement for its common use, and that none of the citizens should be without means of support.