If you declare that you are naturally designed for such a diet, then first kill for yourself what you want to eat. Do it, however, only through your own resources, unaided by cleaver or cudgel or any kind of ax

Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'.

It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.

In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.

Real excellence, indeed, is most recognized when most openly looked into.

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

Solon being asked, namely, what city was best to live in. That city, he replied, in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.