Our need will be the real creator.
For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.
Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.
The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.
There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.
Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night.