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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 Proof That The State Is A Creation Of Nature And Prior To The Individual Is That The Individual, When Isolated, Is Not Self-sufficing.

And, Speaking Generally, Passion Seems Not To Be Amenable To Reason, But Only To Force.

Youth Should Stay Away From All Evil, Especially Things That Produce Wickedness And Ill-will.

. . . Political Society Exists For The Sake Of Noble Actions, And Not Of Mere Companionship.