Nature does nothing without a purpose. In children may be observed the traces and seeds of what will one day be settled psychological habits, though psychologically a child hardly differs for the time being from an animal.

Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination we never find belief.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.

Of governments there are said to be only two forms - democracy and oligarchy. For aristocracy is considered to be a kind of oligarchy, as being the rule of a few, and the so-called constitutional government to be really a democracy.

If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent.

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