The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
Cruel is the strife of brothers.
Happiness, then, is co-extensive with contemplation, and the more people contemplate, the happier they are; not incidentally, but in virtue of their contemplation, because it is in itself precious. Thus happiness is a form of contemplation.
Well begun is half done.
Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.
For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.