For no one either in life or after death has any right to deprive other men of the sustenance which mother earth provides for them.

No sepulchral mound is to be piled higher than five men can raise it in five days, and the grave-stone shall not be larger than is sufficient to contain an inscription of four heroic verses.

The dead are only to be exposed for three days, which is long enough to test the reality of death.

The legislator will instruct the people that the body is a mere shadow or image, and that the soul, which is our true being, is gone to give an account of herself before the Gods below.

When they hear this, the good are full of hope, and the evil are terrified.