But it is not at all certain that this superiority of the many over the sound few is possible in the case of every people and every large number. There are some whom it would be impossible: otherwise the theory would apply to wild animals- and yet some men are hardly any better than wild animals.

Nature of man is not what he was born as, but what he is born for.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

For often, when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream.

The law is reason unaffected by desire.

Hence intellect[ual perception] is both a beginning and an end, for the demonstrations arise from these, and concern them. As a result, one ought to pay attention to the undemonstrated assertions and opinions of experienced and older people, or of the prudent, no less than to demonstrations, for, because the have an experienced eye, they see correctly.