All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.

Both Empedocles and Heraclitus held it for a truth that man could not be altogether cleared from injustice in dealing with beasts as he now does.

Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.

God alone is entirely exempt from all want of human virtues, that which needs least is the most absolute and divine.

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and give them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high place they look down upon the world; but the truly noble and resolved spirit raises itself, and becomes more conspicuous in times of disaster and ill fortune.