In Revolutions The Occasions May Be Trifling

The Duty Of Rhetoric Is To Deal With Such Matters As We Deliberate Upon Without Arts Or Systems To Guide Us, In The Hearing Of Persons Who Cannot Take In At A Glance A Complicated Argument Or Follow A Long Chain Of Reasoning.

[i]t Is Rather The Case That We Desire Something Because We Believe It To Be Good Than That We Believe A Thing To Be Good Because We Desire It. It Is The Thought That Starts Things Off.

When People Are Friends, They Have No Need Of Justice, But When They Are Just, They Need Friendship In Addition.

The True Nature Of A Thing Is The Highest It Can Become.

That Rule Is The Better Which Is Exercised Over Better Subjects.