Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.

Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.

Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole.

That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing.

There is nothing grand or noble in having the use of a slave, in so far as he is a slave; or in issuing commands about necessary things. But it is an error to suppose that every sort of rule is despotic like that of a master over slaves, for there is as great a difference between the rule over freemen and the rule over slaves as there is between slavery by nature and freedom by nature . .