A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and his affairs are not neglected by the gods.

When two friends are in the mood to chat, we have to go about it in a gentler and more dialectical way. By 'more dialectical,' I mean not only that we give real responses, but that we base our responses solely on what the interlocutor admits that he himself knows.

Be kind, for everyone is having a hard battle.

The well-nurtured youth is one who would see most clearly whatever was amiss in ill-made works of man or ill-grown works of nature, and with a just distaste would blame and hate the ugly even from his earliest years and would give delighted praise to beauty, receiving it into his soul and being nourished by it, so that he became a man of gentle heart.

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.

At the touch of love, everyone is a poet.

Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.