Think as the wise men think, but talk like the simple people do.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

A bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast.

It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits. It is equally unreasonable to accept merely probable conclusions from a mathematician and to demand strict demonstration from an orator.

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

Finally, if nothing can be truly asserted, even the following claim would be false, the claim that there is no true assertion.

To leave the number of births unrestricted, as is done in most states, inevitably causes poverty among the citizens, and poverty produces crime and faction.