The Mass Of Mankind Are Evidently Slavish

To Know What Virtue Is Is Not Enough; We Must Endeavor To Possess And To Practice It, Or In Some Other Manner Actually Ourselves To Become Good.

It Is Unbecoming For Young Men To Utter Maxims.

Dignity Does Not Consist In Possessing Honors, But In Deserving Them.

For This Reason Poetry Is Something More Philosophical And More Worthy Of Serious Attention Than History.

Error Is Multiform (for Evil Is A Form Of The Unlimited, As In The Old Pythagorean Imagery, And Good Of The Limited), Whereas Success Is Possible In One Way Only (which Is Why It Is Easy To Fail And Difficult To Succeed - Easy To Miss The Target And Difficult To Hit It); So This Is Another Reason Why Excess And Deficiency Are A Mark Of Vice, And Observance Of The Mean A Mark Of Virtue: Goodness Is Simple, Badness Is Manifold.