A Fool Is Known By His Speech;

The Animals Share With Us The Privilege Of Having A Soul Alas, What Wickedness To Swallow Flesh Into Our Own Flesh, To Fatten Our Greedy Bodies By Cramming In Other Bodies, To Have One Living Creature Fed By The Death Of Another! In The Midst Of Such Wealth As Earth, The Best Of Mothers, Provides, Yet Nothing Satisfies You, But To Behave Like The Cyclopes, Inflicting Sorry Wounds With Cruel Teeth! You Cannot Appease The Hungry Cravings Of Your Wicked, Gluttonous Stomachs Except By Destroying Some Other Life.

There Is Geometry In The Humming Of The Strings, There Is Music In The Spacing Of The Spheres.

Neither Will The Horse Be Adjudged To Be Generous, That Is Sumptuously Adorned, But The Horse Whose Nature Is Illustrious; Nor Is The Man Worthy Who Possesses Great Wealth, But He Whose Soul Is Generous.

Government Exists Only For The Good Of The Governed.

Practice Restraint Over The Following: Appetite, First, As Well As Sleep, Lust, And Anger.