When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer.

When we look at the matter from another point of view, great caution would seem to be required. For the habit of lightly changing the laws is an evil, and, when the advantage is small, some errors both of lawgivers and rulers had better be left; the citizen will not gain so much by making the change as he will lose by the habit of disobedience.

Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves.

A brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps close to truth.

Now the goodness that we have to consider is clearly human goodness, since the good or happiness which we set out to seek was human good and human happiness. But human goodness means in our view excellence of soul, not excellence of body.

Men create the gods after their own images.

The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.