Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts.
The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it.
It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.
Man by Nature desires to know.
Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend.
For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.