When you swear, swear seriously and solemnly, but at the same time with a smile, for a smile is the twin sister of seriousness.

There's a victory and defeat-the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats-which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

Even the gods love jokes.

Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated.

And is it not true that in like manner a leader of the people who, getting control of a docile mob, does not withhold his hand from the shedding of tribal blood, but by the customary unjust accusations brings a citizen into court and assassinates him, blotting out a human life, and with unhallowed tongue and lips that have tasted kindred blood, banishes and slays and hints at the abolition of debts and the partition of lands.

No town can live peacefully whatever its laws when its citizens do nothing but feast and drink and tire themselves out in the cares of love

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.