Whereas The Law Is Passionless, Passion Must

All Flatterers Are Mercenary, And All Low-minded Men Are Flatterers.

But Then In What Way Are Things Called Good? They Do Not Seem To Be Like The Things That Only Chance To Have The Same Name. Are Goods One Then By Being Derived From One Good Or By All Contributing To One Good, Or Are They Rather One By Analogy? Certainly As Sight Is In The Body, So Is Reason In The Soul, And So On In Other Cases.

Poetry Demands A Man With A Special Gift For It, Or Else One With A Touch Of Madness In Him.

The Soul Becomes Prudent By Sitting And Being Quiet.

Here And Elsewhere We Shall Not Obtain The Best Insight Into Things Until We Actually See Them Growing From The Beginning.