For while we are enclosed in these confinements of the body, we perform as a kind of duty the heavy task of necessity; for the soul from heaven has been cast down from its dwelling on high and sunk, as it were, into the earth, a place just the opposite to godlike nature and eternity. But I believe that the immortal gods have sown souls in human bodies so there might exist beings to guard the world and after contemplating the order of heaven, might imitate it by their moderation and steadfastness in life.

No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.

Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth living.

Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember.

Friendship is the only point in human affairs concerning the benefit of which all, with one voice, agree.

The popular breeze - Aura popularis