Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Again, the male is by nature superior, and the female inferior; and the one rules, and the other is ruled; this principle, of necessity, extends to all mankind.

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

The state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than any other, and at the highest good.

When quarrels and complaints arise, it is when people who are equal have not got equal shares, or vice-versa.

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.