If the poor, for example, because they are more in number, divide among themselves the property of the rich,- is not this unjust? . . this law of confiscation clearly cannot be just.

No one who desires to become good will become good unless he does good things.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

All food must be capable of being digested, and that what produces digestion is warmth; that is why everything that has soul in it possesses warmth.

So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the sake of noble actions.

Marriage is like retiring as a bachelor and getting a sexual pension. You don't have to work for the sex any more, but you only get 65% as much.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.