Misfortune Shows Those Who Are Not Really

In Part, Art Completes What Nature Cannot Elaborate; And In Part It Imitates Nature.

While Those Whom Devotion To Abstract Discussions Has Rendered Unobservant Of The Facts Are Too Ready To Dogmatize On The Basis Of A Few Observations.

If What Was Said In The Ethics Is True, That The Happy Life Is The Life According To Virtue Lived Without Impediment, And That Virtue Is A Mean, Then The Life Which Is In A Mean, And In A Mean Attainable By Every One, Must Be The Best. And The Same Principles Of Virtue And Vice Are Characteristic Of Cities And Of Constitutions; For The Constitution Is In A Figure The Life Of The City.

A True Disciple Shows His Appreciation By Reaching Further Than His Teacher.

Great Men Are Always Of A Nature Originally Melancholy.