There is more evidence to prove that saltness [of the sea] is due to the admixture of some substance, besides that which we have adduced. Make a vessel of wax and put it in the sea, fastening its mouth in such a way as to prevent any water getting in. Then the water that percolates through the wax sides of the vessel is sweet, the earthy stuff, the admixture of which makes the water salt, being separated off as it were by a filter.

Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action

I seek to bring forth what you almost already know.

A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to be happy is an active exercise of virtue and a complete employment of it.

Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue

If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for the sake of man.

So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom.