Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.