Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

The English are a nation of consummate cant.

The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death.

Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.

It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it.

Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly.

A married philosopher is a comic character.