“All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help”

“Of all the things which wisdom acquires to produce the blessedness of the complete life, for the greatest is the possession of friendship.”

“If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.”

“I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.”

“The man who says that all events are necessitated has no ground for critizing the man who says that not all events are necessitated. For according to him this is itself a necessitated event.”

“The noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship; of these, the former is a mortal good, the latter and immortal one.”

“It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.”