Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but enjoyed.

Fortune is not only blind herself, but blinds the people she has embraced.

We are not born for ourselves alone.

Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.

You might as well take the sun out of the sky as friendship from life: for the immortal gods have given us nothing better or more delightful.

This seems to be advanced as the surest basis for our belief in the existence of gods, that there is no race so uncivilized, no one in the world so barbarous that his mind has no inkling of a belief in gods.

There is sufficient reward in the mere consciousness of a good action.