Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed.

The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.

No sane man will dance.

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

It is a man's own dishonesty, his crimes, his wickedness, and boldness, that takes away from him soundness of mind; these are the furies, these the flames and firebrands, of the wicked.

An agreement of rash men (a conspiracy).