If the consequences are the same it is always better to assume the more limited antecedent, since in things of nature the limited, as being better, is sure to be found, wherever possible, rather than the unlimited.

So the good has been well explained as that at which all things aim.

One cannot say of something that it is and that it is not in the same respect at the same time.

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor.

Try is a noisy way of doing nothing.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

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