If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like that - agent and patient at once.

Our characters are the result of our conduct.

Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.

The law is reason unaffected by desire.

All men desire by nature to know.

A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.

The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement.