How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms

One thing alone not even God can do,To make undone whatever hath been done.

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

All art is concerned with coming into being.

Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.

Happiness is the highest good

There are branches of learning and education which we must study merely with a view to leisure spent in intellectual activity, and these are to be valued for their own sake; whereas those kinds of knowledge which are useful in business are to be deemed necessary, and exist for the sake of other things.