But the Lacedaemonians, who make it their first principle of action to serve their country's interest, know not any thing to be just or unjust by any measure but that.

Nor is drunkenness censured for anything so much as its intemperate and endless talk.

He who busies himself in mean occupations, produces in the very pains he takes about things of little or no use, an evidence against himself of his negligence and indisposition to what is really good

Oh, what a world full of pain we create, for a little taste upon the tongue.

A lover's soul lives in the body of his mistress.

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

For the rich men without scruple drew the estate into their own hands, excluding the rightful heirs from their succession; and all the wealth being centred upon the few, the generality were poor and miserable. Honourable pursuits, for which there was no longer leisure, were neglected; the state was filled with sordid business, and with hatred and envy of the rich.