Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
AristotleMusic imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.
AristotleHe who has conferred a benefit on anyone from motives of love or honor will feel pain, if he sees that the benefit is received without gratitude.
AristotleOne would have thought that it was even more necessary to limit population than property; and that the limit should be fixed by calculating the chances of mortality in the children, and of sterility in married persons. The neglect of this subject, which in existing states is so common, is a never-failing cause of poverty among the citizens; and poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
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