Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.

Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated.

The best stomachs are not those which reject all foods.

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

So the well educated man can learn to sing and dance well.

There is no necessity for the man who means to be an orator to understand what is really just but only what would appear so to the majority of those who will give judgment; and not what is really good or beautiful but whatever will appear so; because persuasion comes from that and not from the truth.

As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.