Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Peace is more difficult than war.
Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.
A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.
He who is by nature not his own but another's man is by nature a slave.