It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit
Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.
People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just.
A man can make up his mind quickly when he has only a little to make up.
In everything, it is no easy task to find the middle.
The same things are best both for individuals and for states, and these are the things which the legislator ought to implant in the minds of his citizens.