Were it only to learn benevolence to humankind, we should be merciful to other creatures.

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

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

A fool cannot hold his tongue.

Character is long-standing habit.

We ought to give our friend pain if it will benefit him, but not to the extent of breaking off our friendship; but just as we make use of some biting medicine that will save and preserve the life of the patient. And so the friend, like a musician, in bringing about an improvement to what is good and expedient, sometimes slackens the chords, sometimes tightens them, and is often pleasant, but always useful.

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.