Friendship requires a steady, constant, and unchangeable character, a person that is uniform in his intimacy.

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

Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of any angry man.

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.

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.

It is easy to utter what has been kept silent, but impossible to recall what has been uttered.