As to adultery, let it be held disgraceful, in general, for any man or woman to be found in any way unfaithful when they are married, and called husband and wife. If during the time of bearing children anything of the sort occur, let the guilty person be punished with a loss of privileges in proportion to the offense.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

In the perfect state the good man is absolutely the same as the good citizen; whereas in other states the good citizen is only good relatively to his own form of government.

The misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god.

The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things.

Beauty is the gift of God

It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.