Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.

In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak.

The prisoner grows to love his chains.

For as there are misanthropists, or haters of men, there are also misologists, or haters of ideas, and both spring from the same cause, which is ignorance of the world.

Where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.

No soul willfully does wrong.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.