To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.
But few prize honour more than money.
Of the bodies in the cosmos, some imitate mind and move in orbits; some imitate soul and move in a straight line, fire and air upward, earth and water downward.