The probable is what usually happens.

Of the irrational part of the soul again one division appears to be common to all living things, and of a vegetative nature.

To leave the number of births unrestricted, as is done in most states, inevitably causes poverty among the citizens, and poverty produces crime and faction.

Reason is a light that God has kindled in the soul.

That education should be regulated by law and should be an affair of state is not to be denied, but what should be the character of this public education, and how young persons should be educated, are questions which remain to be considered. As things are, there is disagreement about the subjects. For mankind are by no means agreed about the things to be taught, whether we look to virtue or the best life. Neither is it clear whether education is more concerned with intellectual or with moral virtue.

[Hope is] the dream of a waking man.

But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end.