Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, an... - Aristotle

"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit."

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

"The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead."

"The female is, as it were, a mutilated male, and the catamenia are semen, only not pure; for there is only one thing they have not in them, the principle of soul."

"Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular."