Kindness is produced by kindness.

To wonder at nothing when it happens, to consider nothing impossible before it has come to pass.

There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

Every man's friend is no man's friend.

Nothing is so unpredictable as a throw of the dice, and yet every man who plays often will at some time or other make a Venus-cast: now and then he indeed will make it twice and even thrice in succession. Are we going to be so feebleminded then as to aver that such a thing happened by the personal intervention of Venus rather than by pure luck?

It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.

For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights us.