The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five.
Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection.
The blood of a goat will shatter a diamond.
For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.
But also philosophy is not about perceptible substances they, you see, are prone to destruction.
The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.