With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.

.. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition.

People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just.

Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

That education should be regulated by law and should be an affair of state is not to be denied, but what should be the character of this public education, and how young persons should be educated, are questions which remain to be considered. As things are, there is disagreement about the subjects. For mankind are by no means agreed about the things to be taught, whether we look to virtue or the best life. Neither is it clear whether education is more concerned with intellectual or with moral virtue.

We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.

Let us first understand the facts and then we may seek the cause.