Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
If we have never been amazed by the very fact that we exist, we are squandering the greatest fact of all.
Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.
The laws that Charondas gave to Catana,... A man might divorce his wife, or a wife her husband, said Charondas, but then he or she must not marry anyone younger than the divorced mate.