Of all the gifts that wise Providence grants us to make life full and happy, friendship is the most beautiful.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.

Death is meaningless to the living because they are living, and meaningless to the dead… because they are dead.

Haec ego non multis (scribo), sed tibi: satis enim magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus. I am writing this not to many, but to you: certainly we are a great enough audience for each other.

There is no such thing as justice or injustice among those beasts that cannot make agreements not to injure or be injured. This is also true of those tribes that are unable or unwilling to make agreements not to injure or be injured.

He who needs riches least, enjoys riches most.