The soul suffers when the body is diseased or traumatized, while the body suffers when the soul is ailing.

Man's best friend is one who wishes well to the object of his wish for his sake, even if no one is to know of it.

Now if there is any gift of the gods to men, it is reasonable that happiness should be god-given, and most surely god-given of all human things inasmuch as it is the best. But this question would perhaps be more appropriate to another inquiry; happiness seems, however, even if it is not god-sent but comes as a result of virtue and some process of learning and training, to be among the most god-like things; for that which is the prize and end of virtue seems to be the best thing in the world, and something god-like and blessed.

Nature does nothing in vain.

All flatterers are mercenary, and all low-minded men are flatterers.

Experience has shown that it is difficult, if not impossible, for a populous state to be run by good laws.

For imitation is natural to man from his infancy. Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and acquires his rudiments of knowledge in this way; besides, the delight in it is universal.