To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.
Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.
The fool tells me his reason; the wise man persuades me with my own.
[Meanness] is more ingrained in man's nature than Prodigality; the mass of mankind are avaricious rather than open-handed.
PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.
. .we would have to say that hereditary succession is harmful. You may say the king, having sovereign power, will not in that case hand over to his children. But it is hard to believe that: it is a difficult achievement, which expects too much virtue of human nature.