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

All men who would surpass the other animals should do their best not to pass through life silently like the beasts whom nature made prone, obedient to their bellies.

Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.

All persons who are enthusiastic that they should transcend the other animals ought to strive with the utmost effort not to pass through a life of silence, like cattle, which nature has fashioned to be prone and obedient to their stomachs.

It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of prophecy and of healing, which are part of the cosmos, come of the good providence of the Gods.

He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.

Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.