Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

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Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?

For even they who compose treatises of medicine or natural philosophy in verse are denominated Poets: yet Homer and Empedocles have nothing in common except their metre; the former, therefore, justly merits the name of the Poet; while the other should rather be called a Physiologist than a Poet.

The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.

The sun, moving as it does, sets up processes of change and becoming and decay, and by its agency the finest and sweetest water is every day carried up and is dissolved into vapour and rises to the upper region, where it is condensed again by the cold and so returns to the earth. This, as we have said before, is the regular course of nature.

Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.