People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just.

PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.

Anger is always concerned with individuals, ... whereas hatred is directed also against classes: we all hate any thief and any informer. Moreover, anger can be cured by time; but hatred cannot. The one aims at giving pain to its object, the other at doing him harm; the angry man wants his victim to feel; the hater does not mind whether they feel or not.

Neither should men study war with a view to the enslavement of those who do not deserve to be enslaved; but first of all they should provide against their own enslavement, and in the second place obtain empire for the good of the governed, and not for the sake of exercising a general despotism, and in the third place they should seek to be masters only over those who deserve to be slaves.

Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.

Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it.

Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge.