And though reason is common, most people live as though they had an understanding peculiar to themselves. With what they most constantly associate, with this they are at variance. It is not meet to act and speak like men asleep. They that are awake have one world in common, but of the sleeping each turns aside into a world of his own. For human nature has not wisdom, but divine nature has.
Man is called a baby by god, even as a child is by man.
The people ought to fight for their laws as for a wall. Greater deaths gain greater portions. Gods and men honour those slain in battle. Wantonness must be quenched more than a conflagration. It is not good for men to have whatever they want.