I can see clothes of silk, if materials that do not hide the body, nor even one's decency, can be called clothes. ... Wretched flocks of maids labor so that the adulteress may be visible through her thin dress, so that her husband has no more acquaintance than any outsider or foreigner with his wife's body.

Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.

The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.

It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.

True love can fear no one.