"Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it."

"Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another."

"Wealth, and poverty; the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent."

"The excellence and righteousness for each thing depend solely on the use for which it was created. This naturally means that the user has the most experience of it and must tell the maker how it works best."

"If a man says that it is right to give everyone his due, and therefore thinks within his own mind that injury is due from a just man to his enemies but kindness to his friends, he was not wise who said so, for he spoke not the truth, for in no case has it appeared to be just to injure any one."

"No tools will make a man a skilled workmen, or master of defense, or be of any use to him who has not learned how to handle them and has never bestowed any attention on them."

"To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils."

"Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men."

"No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth."

"Love is of the beautiful, and therefore has not the beautiful. And the beautiful is the good, and therefore, in wanting and desiring the beautiful, love also wants and desires the good."