All art is concerned with coming into being.
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.
A human being is a naturally political [animal].
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.
It is true, indeed, that the account Plato gives in 'Timaeus' is different from what he says in his so-called 'unwritten teachings.'