Man is the plumeless genus of bipeds, birds are the plumed.

As the government is, such will be the man.

Wine fills the heart with courage.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

And among the other honours and rewards our young men can win for distinguished service in war and in other activities, will be more frequent opportunities to sleep with a woman; this will give us a pretext for ensuring that most of our children are born of that parent.

The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents for their children, besides that natural love of it for the sake of use and profit.

Lessons, however, that enter the soul against its will never grow roots and will never be preserved inside it.