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Well begun is half done.  Law is order, and good law is good order. The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. We should venture on the study of every kind of animal without distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something natural and something beautiful. Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. Evils draw men together. All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire Man is by nature a political animal. Nature does nothing uselessly. It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it. Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had. Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. They should rule who are able to rule best. The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man. |
