Human beings are curious by nature.

It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.

Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you not to hear? The very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not to have been born, not to be, to be nothing. However, the second best thing for you is: to die soon.

Of the irrational part of the soul again one division appears to be common to all living things, and of a vegetative nature.

Neither should we forget the mean, which at the present day is lost sight of in perverted forms of government; for many practices which appear to be democratical are the ruin of democracies, . . Those who think that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state.

He who is by nature not his own but another's man is by nature a slave.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.