To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.

To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.

The essences of the Gods never came into existence (for that which always is never comes into existence; and that exists for ever which possesses primary force and by nature suffers nothing): neither do they consist of bodies; for even in bodies the powers are incorporeal. Neither are they contained by space; for that is a property of bodies. Neither are they separate from the first cause nor from one another, just as thoughts are not separate from mind nor acts of knowledge from the soul.

Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.

The Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good; just as darkness itself does not exist, but only comes about by absence of light.

But few prize honour more than money.

One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.