When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence.

...one Greek city state had a fundamental law: anyone proposing revisions to the constitution did so with a noose around his neck. If his proposal lost he was instantly hanged.

Every man should be responsible to others, nor should any one be allowed to do just as he pleases; for where absolute freedom is allowed, there is nothing to restrain the evil which is inherent in every man.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

There are no experienced young people. Time makes experience.

A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave... The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities - a natural defectiveness.

The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.