If Then Nature Makes Nothing Without Some

We Are Better Able To Study Our Neighbours Than Ourselves, And Their Actions Than Our Own.

... The Friendship Of Worthless People Has A Bad Effect (because They Take Part, Unstable As They Are, In Worthless Pursuits, And Actually Become Bad Through Each Other's Influence). But The Friendship Of The Good Is Good, And Increases In Goodness Because Of Their Association. They Seem Even To Become Better Men By Exercising Their Friendship And Improving Each Other; For The Traits That They Admire In Each Other Get Transferred To Themselves.

Bashfulness Is An Ornament To Youth, But A Reproach To Old Age.

A Common Danger Unites Even The Bitterest Enemies.

To Leave The Number Of Births Unrestricted, As Is Done In Most States, Inevitably Causes Poverty Among The Citizens, And Poverty Produces Crime And Faction.