The purpose of art is to represent the meaning of things. This represents the true reality, not external aspects.

Fate of empires depends on the education of youth

Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is therefore preferable to any individual.

The male has more teeth than the female in mankind, and sheep and goats, and swine. This has not been observed in other animals. Those persons which have the greatest number of teeth are the longest lived; those which have them widely separated, smaller, and more scattered, are generally more short lived.

Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be.

People never know each other until they have eaten a certain amount of salt together.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.