The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things.

The true nature of anything is what it becomes at its highest.

The complete man must work, study and wrestle.

A body in motion can maintain this motion only if it remains in contact with a mover.

If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development

In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure.

Rhetoric is useful because the true and the just are naturally superior to their opposites, so that, if decisions are improperly made, they must owe their defeat to their own advocates; which is reprehensible. Further, in dealing with certain persons, even if we possessed the most accurate scientific knowledge, we should not find it easy to persuade them by the employment of such knowledge. For scientific discourse is concerned with instruction, but in the case of such persons instruction is impossible.