The seen is the changing, the unseen is the unchanging.

Whence comes war and fighting, and factions? Whence but from the body and the lust of the body? Wars are occasioned by the love of money, and money has to be acquired for the same and service of the body.

So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary.

Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule.

Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.