Friends should be preferred to kings.
Every beauty, when out of it's place, is a beauty no longer.
The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.
I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.
Go get yourself crucified and then rise on the third day.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.