To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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.
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.