The frail form of a Woman, being liable to be shattered by such an approximation, must be preserved by the State; but since Women
cannot be distinguished by the sense of sight from Men, the Law ordains universally that neither Man nor Woman shall be approached so closely as to destroy the interval between the approximator and the approximated.
If there be a single law governing the actions of men, free will
cannot exist, for then man's will is subject to that law.
Spies
cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity.
Ferrars comfortable as a bachelor; it
cannot enable him to marry.
Again, when a thing is present in a subject, though the name may quite well be applied to that in which it is present, the definition
cannot be applied.
Laws embodied in differential equations may possibly be exact, but
cannot be known to be so.
Putting this, however, aside, for it is a puzzling question for which it is difficult to find a solution, let us return to the superiority of arms over letters, a matter still undecided, so many are the arguments put forward on each side; for besides those I have mentioned, letters say that without them arms
cannot maintain themselves, for war, too, has its laws and is governed by them, and laws belong to the domain of letters and men of letters.
Besides this, one
cannot by fair dealing, and without injury to others, satisfy the nobles, but you can satisfy the people, for their object is more righteous than that of the nobles, the latter wishing to oppress, while the former only desire not to be oppressed.
I thought it best,' said he, 'to call: One
cannot settle things too soon.
I
cannot tell," answered the soldier, "for nobody has ever crossed the desert, unless it is Oz himself.
If you really
cannot come to me will you let me come to you?
But if there are different sorts of governments, it is evident that those actions which constitute the virtue of an excellent citizen in one community will not constitute it in another; wherefore the virtue of such a one
cannot be perfect: but we say, a man is good when his virtues are perfect; from whence it follows, that an excellent citizen does not possess that virtue which constitutes a good man.
