Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.

When a person supposes that he knows, and does not know; this appears to be the great source of all the errors of the intellect.

No human thing is of serious importance.

The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.

One cannot make a slave of a free person, for a free person is free even in a prison.

Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.