The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how the four cardinal virtues want us.

The higher you ascend, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. But most of all they hate those who fly.

In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.

All philosophy is a form of confession.

Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help: that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals himself.

The scaffolding must be removed once the house is built.

Almost two thousand years, and no new god!