...perhaps there is some element of good even in the simple act of living, so long as the evils of existence do not preponderate too heavily.

The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how to bring into existence something which is capable of having such an existence and has its efficient cause in the maker and not in itself.

To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.

By 'life,' we mean a thing that can nourish itself and grow and decay.

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.