What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.

Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible; life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace a right life is possible.

The main thing we were made for is to work with others.

Once you have done a man a service, what more reward would you have? Is it not enough to have obeyed the laws of your own nature, without expecting to be paid for it?

Bear in mind that the measure of a man is the worth of the things he cares about.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

After all, what does fame everlasting mean? Mere vanity.