The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.

While the sick man has life, there is hope.

The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.

For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue.