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

Such, Echecrates, was the end of our comrade, who was, we may fairly say, of all those whom we knew in our time, the bravest and also the wisest and most upright man.

It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

Do not expect justice where might is right.

So 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.

There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.