We may assume the superiority ceteris paribus of the demonstration which derives from fewer postulates or hypotheses - in short, from fewer premises.

for we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use

Whether we call it sacrifice, or poetry, or adventure, it is always the same voice that calls.

For nature by the same cause, provided it remain in the same condition, always produces the same effect, so that either coming-to-be or passing-away will always result.

Men are marked from the moment of birth to rule or be ruled.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

Everyone honors the wise.