And therefore, according to Plato, a judge should not be young, just as a young man according to Aristotle is not fit to be a hearer of moral philosophy.
The bad, on the other hand, have a knowledge of vice, but no knowledge of virtue.

It may be doubted, however, whether this train of reflection is well founded.

In a remarkable passage of the Laws it is acknowledged that the evil may form a correct estimate of the good.

The union of gentleness and courage in Book ii.

at first seemed to be a paradox, yet was afterwards ascertained to be a truth.