Salt is born of the purest parents: the sun and the sea.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.

Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and daemons.

Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.

most men and women, by birth or nature, lack the means to advance in wealth or power, but all have the ability to advance in knowledge.

It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.

Oh, my fellow men, do not defile your bodies with sinful foods. We have corn, we have apples bending down the branches with their weight, and grapes swelling on the vines. There are sweet-flavored herbs, and vegetables which can be cooked and softened over the fire, nor are you denied milk or thyme-scented honey. The earth affords a lavish supply of riches, of innocent foods, and offers you banquets that involve no bloodshed or slaughter; only beasts satisfy their hunger with flesh, and not even all of those, because horses, cattle, and sheep live on grass.