And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
To be angry is easy. But to be angry with the right man at the right time and in the right manner, that is not easy.
A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art.
Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination we never find belief.
The true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme poverty lowers the character of the democracy.