A very populous city can rarely, if ever, be well governed.
We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea.
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.
In everything, it is no easy task to find the middle.
Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with the primary premises/principles.