To have the same likes and dislikes, therein consists the firmest bond of friendship.

To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.

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

Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.

Everything destroyed is either resolved into the elements from which it came, or else vanishes into not-being. If things are resolved into the elements from which they came, then there will be others: else how did they come into being at all?

All this care for the world, we must believe, is taken by the Gods without any act of will or labor. As bodies which possess some power produce their effects by merely existing: e.g. the sun gives light and heat by merely existing; so, and far more so, the providence of the Gods acts without effort to itself and for the good of the objects of its forethought. This solves the problems of the Epicureans , who argue that what is divine neither has trouble itself nor gives trouble to others.

Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.