A Friend To All Is A Friend

By 'life,' We Mean A Thing That Can Nourish Itself And Grow And Decay.

All Teaching And All Intellectual Learning Come About From Already Existing Knowledge.

The Aim Of The Wise Is Not To Secure Pleasure, But To Avoid Pain.

Even When Laws Have Been Written Down, They Ought Not Always To Remain Unaltered. As In Other Sciences, So In Politics, It Is Impossible That All Things Should Be Precisely Set Down In Writing; For Enactments Must Be Universal, But Actions Are Concerned With Particulars. Hence We Infer That Sometimes And In Certain Cases Laws May Be Changed.

The Happy Man . . . Will Be Always Or At Least Most Often Employed In Doing And Contemplating The Things That Are In Conformity With Virtue. And He Will Bear Changes Of Fortunes Most Nobly, And With Perfect Propriety In Every Way.