It is right to give every man his due.

Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.

Arguments, like men, are often pretenders.

This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related.

May I do to others as I would that they should do unto me.

Let him know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible. . . . For this is the way of happiness.

Wine fills the heart with courage.