The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

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.

To honor with hymns and panegyrics those who are still alive is not safe; a man should run his course and make a fair ending, and then we will praise him; and let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.

Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.

Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.

Because it is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible.