Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
A small state increases by concord; the greatest falls gradually to ruin by dissension.
If the transmigration of a soul takes place into a rational being, it simply becomes the soul of that body. But if the soul migrates into a brute beast, it follows the body outside, as a guardian spirit follows a man. For there could never be a rational soul in an irrational being.
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
Of the cosmic Gods some make the world be, others animate it, others harmonize it, consisting as it does of different elements; the fourth class keep it when harmonized.