In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.

By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.

The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.

One may call the world a myth , in which bodies and things are visible, but souls and minds hidden. Besides, to wish to teach the whole truth about the Gods to all produces contempt in the foolish, because they cannot understand, and lack of zeal in the good, whereas to conceal the truth by myths prevents the contempt of the foolish, and compels the good to practice philosophy.

It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.

If the transmigration of a soul takes place into a rational being, it simply becomes the soul of that body. But if the soul migrates into a brute beast, it follows the body outside, as a guardian spirit follows a man. For there could never be a rational soul in an irrational being.

No grief reaches the dead.