What is honored in a country will be cultivated there.

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.

Our need will be the real creator.

A delightful form of government, anarchic and motley, assigning a kind of equality indiscriminately to equals and unequals alike!

All wars are fought for the sake of getting money.

The honour of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity, but to have the use of a treasure of wealth and honour, and to leave none to your successors, because you have neither money nor reputation of your own, is alike base and dishonourable.

A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and his affairs are not neglected by the gods.