53
There are two powers that make for peace: what is right, and what is fitting.
54
Justice insists on obligation, law on decorum. Justice weighs and decides, law superintends and orders. Justice refers to the individual, law to society.
55
The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge.
II
56
If a man is to achieve all that is asked of him, he must take himself for more than he is, and as long as he does not carry it to an absurd length, we willingly put up with it.