The law is reason, free from passion.

Two characteristic marks have above all others been recognized as distinguishing that which has soul in it from that which has not - movement and sensation.

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in office.

The best things are placed between extremes.

Men must be able to engage in business and go to war, but leisure and peace are better; they must do what is necessary and indeed what is useful, but what is honorable is better. On such principles children and persons of every age which requires education should be trained.

As the pleasures of the body are the ones which we most often meet with, and as all men are capable of these, these have usurped the family title; and some men think these are the only pleasures that exist, because they are the only ones which they know.