The Best Things Are Placed Between Extremes.

A Young Man Is Not A Proper Hearer Of Lectures On Political Science; For He Is Inexperienced In The Actions That Occur In Life, But Its Discussions Start From These And Are About These; And, Further, Since He Tends To Follow His Passions, His Study Will Be Vain And Unprofitable, Because The End That Is Aimed At Is Not Knowledge But Action. And It Makes No Difference Whether He Is Young In Years Or Youthful In Character.

Comedy Aims At Representing Men As Worse, Tragedy As Better Than In Actual Life.

The Citizens Begin By Giving Up Some Part Of The Constitution, And So With Greater Ease The Government Change Something Else Which Is A Little More Important, Until They Have Undermined The Whole Fabric Of The State.

For What One Has To Learn To Do, We Learn By Doing.

It Is Not Sufficient To Know What One Ought To Say, But One Must Also Know How To Say It.