What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess in common with others.

The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.

So it is naturally with the male and the female; the one is superior, the other inferior; the one governs, the other is governed; and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind.

In general, what is written must be easy to read and easy to speak; which is the same.

A gentleman is not disturbed by anything

The law does not expressly permit suicide, and what it does not permit it forbids.

Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god.