Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Astonishing! Everything is intelligent!

The earth affords a lavish supply of richess of innocent foods, and offers you banquets that involve no bloodshed or slaughter; only beasts satisfy their hunger with flesh, and not even all of those, because horses, cattle, and sheep live on grass.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

A stranger, if just, is not only to be preferred before a countryman, but a kinsman.

We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies.

most men and women, by birth or nature, lack the means to advance in wealth or power, but all have the ability to advance in knowledge.