Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.

We rejoice in the joys of our friends as much as we do our own, and we are equally grieved at their sorrows. Wherefore the wise people will feel toward their friends as they do toward themselves, and whatever labor they would encounter with a view to their own pleasure, they will encounter also for the sake of their friends.

Man was born for two things--thinking and acting.

It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged.

No sane man will dance.

You may never be less alone than when you are alone.

Strict law is often great injustice.