The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.

No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death.

You are mistaken, my friend, if you think that a man who is worth anything ought to spend his time weighing up the prospects of life and death. He has only one thing to consider in performing any action - that is, whether he is acting rightly or wrongly, like a good man or a bad one.

When the music changes, the walls of the city shake.

The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he.

Equals, the proverb goes, delight in equals.

What is better adapted than the festive use of wine in the first place to test and in the second place to train the character of a man, if care be taken in the use of it? What is there cheaper or more innocent?