Those who put in order laws and customs and established kingship and government in cities brought life into a state of much security and tranquillity and banished turmoil. If anyone gets rid of these things, we shall live the life of the beasts, and one man on meeting another will practically devour him.
Colotes, citado por Plutarco em Contra Colotes 1124d
in Malcolm Schofield, "Epicurean and Stoic Political Thought" in Christopher Rowe & Malcolm Schofield (eds.),
The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Political Thought. CUP, Cambridge: 2000
