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.

No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.

In fact the whole passion ordinarily termed love (and heaven help me if I can think of any other term to apply to it) is of such exceeding triviality that I see nothing that I think comparable with it.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

The hours pass and the days and the months and the years, and the past time never returns.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is nothing which so fits in with our nature, or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity.