This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows.

The soul in sleep gives proof of its divine nature.

Anyone who has got a book collection/library and a garden wants for nothing.

Friendship, on the other hand, serves a great host of different purposes all at the same time. In whatever direction you turn, it still remains yours. No barrier can shut it out. It can never be untimely; it can never be in the way. We need friendship all the time, just as much as we need the proverbial prime necessities of life, fire and water.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others.

Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.