Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life

Educated men are as much superior to uneducated men as the living are to the dead.

Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may...meet with great misfortunes.