Love makes a spot beautiful: who chooses not to dwell in love, has he got wisdom?
Even four harnessed horses cannot bring imprudent words back into the mouth.
If you don't know how to serve men, why worry about serving the gods?
I saw some piglets suckling their dead mother. After a short while they shuddered and went away. They had sensed that she could no longer see them and that she wasn't like them any more. What they loved in their mother wasn't her body, but whatever it was that made her body live.
Between friends, frequent reproofs make the friendship distant.
The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.