It was a saying of his that education was an ornament in prosperity, and a refuge in adversity. And that those parents who gave their children a good education deserved more honour than those who merely beget them: for that the latter only enabled their children to live, but the former gave them the power of living well.
When a man boasted in his presence that he was a native of an illustrious city, he said, “That is not what one ought to look at, but whether one is worthy of a great city.”
He was once asked what a friend is; and his answer was, “One soul abiding in two bodies.”
It was a saying of his that some men were as stingy as if they expected to live for ever, and some as extravagant as if they expected to die immediately.
When he was asked why people like to spend a great deal of their time with handsome people, “That,” said