Consider how great is the encouragement which all the world gives to the lover; neither is he supposed to be doing anything dishonourable; but if he succeeds he is praised, and if he fail he is blamed.

Shall we not, then, lay down a law, in the first place, that boys shall abstain altogether from wine till their eighteenth year, thereby teaching that it is wrong to add fire to fire, as through a funnel, pouring it into their body and soul before they proceed to the labor of life, thus exercising a caution as to the maddening habits of youth.

Love: a grave mental disease.

A certain portion of mankind do not believe at all in the existence of the gods.

You can remember, a single deluge only, but there were many previous ones.

Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.

You cannot go into the same water twice.