Art takes nature as its model.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

One thing alone not even God can do,To make undone whatever hath been done.

Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

There is no such thing as committing adultery with the right woman, at the right time, and in the right way, for it is simply WRONG.

It has been handed down in mythical form from earliest times to posterity, that there are gods, and that the divine (Deity) compasses all nature. All beside this has been added, after the mythical style, for the purpose of persuading the multitude, and for the interests of the laws, and the advantage of the state.