For the more limited, if adequate, is always preferable.

The probable is what usually happens.

Of old, the demagogue was also a general, and then democracies changed into tyrannies. Most of the ancient tyrants were originally demagogues. They are not so now, but they were then; and the reason is that they were generals and not orators, for oratory had not yet come into fashion.

The End is included among goods of the soul, and not among external goods.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

The good man is he for whom, because he is virtuous, the things that are absolutely good are good; it is also plain that his use of these goods must be virtuous and in the absolute sense good.

Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.