Rhetoric is useful because the true and the just are naturally superior to their opposites, so that, if decisions are improperly made, they must owe their defeat to their own advocates; which is reprehensible. Further, in dealing with certain persons, even if we possessed the most accurate scientific knowledge, we should not find it easy to persuade them by the employment of such knowledge. For scientific discourse is concerned with instruction, but in the case of such persons instruction is impossible.

Change in all things is sweet.

The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.

Victory is plesant, not only to those who love to conquer, bot to all; for there is produced an idea of superiority, which all with more or less eagerness desire.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just.