“Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are therir own”

“Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.”

“Courage is the mother of all virtues because without it, you cannot consistently perform the others.”

“the greater the number of owners, the less the respect for common property. People are much more careful of their personal possessions than of those owned communally; they exercise care over common property only in so far as they are personally affected.”

“The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.”

“It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.”

“A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.”