Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.
We may assume the superiority ceteris paribus of the demonstration which derives from fewer postulates or hypotheses - in short, from fewer premises.
Art takes nature as its model.
The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.
It is also in the interests of a tyrant to make his subjects poo...the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.