Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.

Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.

No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.

Necessity makes even the timid brave.

Now the myths represent the Gods themselves and the goodness of the Gods subject always to the distinction of the speakable and the unspeakable, the revealed and the unrevealed, that which is clear and that which is hidden: since, just as the Gods have made the goods of sense common to all, but those of intellect only to the wise, so the myths state the existence of Gods to all, but who and what they are only to those who can understand.

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

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.