It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

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  Of all the things that wisdom provides for the happiness of the whole of life, by far the greatest is the possession of friendship.

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  Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

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  Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

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  Friendship is superior to kinship, because goodwill can be taken away from kinship, but not from friendship.

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  He who will not share his wealth with others is not worth befriending.

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  When I walk along with two others, they may serve me as my teachers. I will select their good qualities and follow them, and their bad qualities I will correct in myself.

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