To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.
A true friend is a sort of second self.
Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.
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.
To give counsel, as well as to take it, is a feature of true friendship.
All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union, and are connected, if I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one another.