And This Lies In The Nature Of

Metaphor Is Halfway Between The Unintelligible And The Commonplace.

It Has Been Handed Down In Mythical Form From Earliest Times To Posterity, That There Are Gods, And That The Divine (deity) Compasses All Nature. All Beside This Has Been Added, After The Mythical Style, For The Purpose Of Persuading The Multitude, And For The Interests Of The Laws, And The Advantage Of The State.

The Good Citizen Need Not Of Necessity Possess The Virtue Which Makes A Good Man.

Inferiors Revolt In Order That They May Be Equal, And Equals That They May Be Superior. Such Is The State Of Mind Which Creates Revolutions.

The Probable Is What Usually Happens.