“To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.”

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

“Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.”

“He who says either that the time for philosophy has not yet come or that it has passed is like someone who says that the time for happiness has not yet come or that it has passed.”

“Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.”

“I was not, I was, I am not, I care not. (Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo)”

“The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.”