Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves.
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us
There is honor in being a dog.
It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs, but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason, when the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs.
All men by nature desire knowledge.
If the poor, for example, because they are more in number, divide among themselves the property of the rich,- is not this unjust? . . this law of confiscation clearly cannot be just.