Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear who can, if they like, encroach, is far greater, for the weaker are always asking for equality and justice, but the stronger care for none of these things.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

God and nature create nothing that does not fulfill a purpose

PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.