When Pleasure is at the bar the jury is not impartial.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

When...we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly helping to promote the pursuit of happiness by our fellow human beings.

All human happiness and misery take the form of action.

Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues

The legislator should direct his attention above all to the education of youth; for the neglect of education does harm to the constitution. The citizen should be molded to suit the form of government under which he lives. For each government has a peculiar character which originally formed and which continues to preserve it. The character of democracy creates democracy, and the character of oligarchy creates oligarchy.