Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard t`o their form but with regard to their mode of life.

A statement is persuasive and credible either because it is directly self-evident or because it appears to be proved from other statements that are so.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.