"For the female is more compassionate than the male, and more easily moved to tears, and more jealous, and more querulous, and more apt to scold and to strike."

"Wit, he says in the Rhetoric (2, 12), is educated insolence."

"Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice."

"He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god."

"A young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on moral philosophy, for he is inexperienced in the actions that occur in life, and since he tends to follow his passions, his study will be vain and unp…"