Some persons hold that, while it is proper for the lawgiver to encourage and exhort men to virtue on moral grounds, in the expectation that those who have had a virtuous moral upbringing will respond, yet he is bound to impose chastisement and penalties on the disobedient and ill-conditioned, and to banish the incorrigible out of the state altogether. For (they argue) although the virtuous man, who guides his life by moral ideals, will be obedient to reason, the base, whose desires are fixed on pleasure, must be chastised by pain, like a beast of burden.

All flatterers are mercenary, and all low-minded men are flatterers.

There must be in prudence also some master virtue.

Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no.

Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.

We work to earn our leisure.

Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may in the evening of his days meet with great misfortunes.