The avarice of mankind is insatiable; at one time two obols was pay enough; but now, when this sum has become customary, men always want more and more without end.

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.

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

Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament and some of them to such an extent as to be affected by diseases caused by black bile?

Justice therefore demands that no one should do more ruling than being ruled, but that all should have their turn.

The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.