...To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage - Plutarch

is to make them grow tall. For it contributes to height of stature when the vitality is not impeded and hindered by a mass of nourishment which forces it into thickness and width,

Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.

Education and study, and the favours of the muses, confer no greater benefit on those that seek them than these humanizing and civilizing lessons, which teach our natural qualities to submit to the limitations prescribed by reason, and to avoid the wildness of extremes.