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

Nature and wisdom never are at strife.

The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.

For man is a plant, not fixed in the earth, nor immovable, but heavenly, whose head, rising as it were from a root upwards, is turned towards heaven.

When Anaxagoras was told of the death of his son, he only said, "I knew he was mortal." So we in all casualties of life should say "I knew my riches were uncertain, that my friend was but a man." Such considerations would soon pacify us, because all our troubles proceed from their being unexpected.

Alexander esteemed it more kingly to govern himself than to conquer his enemies.

A healer of others, himself diseased.