There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.

The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.

One hand washes the other.

Democracy is more cruel than wars or tyrants.

Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.

Epicurus says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink.

A great, a good, and a right mind is a kind of divinity lodged in flesh, and may be the blessing of a slave as well as of a prince: it came from heaven, and to heaven it must return; and it is a kind of heavenly felicity, which a pure and virtuous mind enjoys, in some degree, even upon earth.