Greatness of spirit is to bear finely both good fourtune and bad, honor and disgrace, and not to think highly of luxury or attention or power or victories in contests, and to possess a certain depth and magnitude of spirit.

The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.

Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

When couples have children in excess, let abortion be procured before sense and life have begun; what may or may not be lawfully done in these cases depends on the question of life and sensation.

The angry man wishes the object of his anger to suffer in return; hatred wishes its object not to exist.

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

For imitation is natural to man from his infancy. Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and acquires his rudiments of knowledge in this way; besides, the delight in it is universal.