If your cloak was a gift, I appreciate it; if it was a loan, I'm not through with it yet.

To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other.

The health and vigor necessary for the practice of what is good, depend equally on both mind and body.

Even if I am but a pretender to wisdom, that in itself is philosophy.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.