Wine fills the heart with courage.

A state arises,as I conceive,out of the needs of mankind;no one is self-sufficing,but all of us have many wants

Of all the things which a man has, next to the gods his soul is the most divine and most truly his own.

Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding.

Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.

Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.

The laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals