It is likely that unlikely things should happen

The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.

When Pleasure is at the bar the jury is not impartial.

Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts.

Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves.

In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state.

The law does not expressly permit suicide, and what it does not permit it forbids.