Both Empedocles and Heraclitus held it for a truth that man could not be altogether cleared from injustice in dealing with beasts as he now does.

We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.

I see the cure is not worth the pain.

We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.

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.

Words will build no walls.

When another is asked a question, take special care not to interrupt to answer it yourself.