To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

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

The souls ability to nourish itself lies in the heart.

He is courageous who endures and fears the right thing, for the right motive, in the right way and at the right times.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.

Whereas happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it, the various qualities of men are clearly the reason why there are various kinds of states and many forms of government; for different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.