Man first begins to philosophize when the necessities of life are supplied.

We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.

The soul suffers when the body is diseased or traumatized, while the body suffers when the soul is ailing.

Of the tyrant, spies and informers are the principal instruments. War is his favorite occupation, for the sake of engrossing the attention of the people, and making himself necessary to them as their leader.

There is nothing unequal as the equal treatment of unequals.

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

Love well, be loved and do something of value.