The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy.

In seeking for justice men seek for the mean or neutral, for the law is the mean. Again, customary laws have more weight, and relate to more important matters, than written laws, and a man may be a safer ruler than the written law, but not safer than the customary law.

The appropriate age for marrige is around eighteen and thirty-seven for man

Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity.

As to adultery, let it be held disgraceful, in general, for any man or woman to be found in any way unfaithful when they are married, and called husband and wife. If during the time of bearing children anything of the sort occur, let the guilty person be punished with a loss of privileges in proportion to the offense.

There also appears to be another element in the soul, which, though irrational, yet in a manner participates in rational principle.

We do not know a truth without knowing its cause.