But few prize honour more than money.

Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.

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

While the body is young and fine, the soul blunders, but as the body grows old it attains its highest power. Again, every good soul uses mind; but no body can produce mind: for how should that which is without mind produce mind? Again, while the soul uses the body as an instrument, it is not in it; just as the engineer is not in his engines (although many engines move without being touched by any one).

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.

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.