Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

Oh, what a world full of pain we create, for a little taste upon the tongue.

Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it to that of a beast.

The talkative listen to no one, for they are ever speaking. And the first evil that attends those who know not to be silent is that they hear nothing.

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

...To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.