A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.

The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.

He has the most who is most content with the least.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.

What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.

Stand a little less between me and the sun.

I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.

I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.

I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.

Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

Blushing is the color of virtue.

Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.

It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.

It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

He has the most who is content with the least.

There is only a fingers difference between a wise man and a fool.

Being asked where in Greece he saw good men, he replied, "Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta."

Being a publicist is like management in a lot of ways - you're their friend, you're their mother, you're their confidante.

But even with a character like Cary who is relatively outlandish, at the end of the movie he's in a place where I wouldn't have expected him to be - taking on the responsibility of a woman who is pregnant and who used to be his best friend's wife.

Depending on what day of the week it is and what time of the month it is, I'm a good friend or not a good friend. I'm more or less a good mom or not a good mom, more or less a good mate or not a good mate. That's just life, whether or not you're public.

In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.

My desk, most loyal friend thank you. You've been with me on every road I've taken. My scar and my protection.

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.

The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.

For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.

I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.

Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.

I have a friend in New York who's a stylist and I went over to her place because she's got a lot of clothes. I basically ended up wearing most of it. So it's all stuff that I brought over.