Blushing is the color of virtue.

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

If you are to be kept right, you must possess either good friends or red-hot enemies. The one will warn you, the other will expose you.

All things are in common among friends.

Chilo advised, "not to speak evil of the dead."

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

We have complicated every simple gift of the gods.