“Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
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A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
The secret to humor is surprise.
For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.