A speaker who is attempting to move people to thought or action must concern himself with Pathos.

It has been handed down in mythical form from earliest times to posterity, that there are gods, and that the divine (Deity) compasses all nature. All beside this has been added, after the mythical style, for the purpose of persuading the multitude, and for the interests of the laws, and the advantage of the state.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.

Between friends there is no need of justice.

For through wondering human beings now and in the beginning have been led to philosophizing.

The art of wealth-getting which consists in household management, on the one hand, has a limit; the unlimited acquisition of wealth is not its business. And therefore, in one point of view, all riches must have a limit; nevertheless, as a matter of fact, we find the opposite to be the case; for all getters of wealth increase their hard coin without limit.