Of actions some aim at what is necessary and useful, and some at what is honorable. And the preference given to one or the other class of actions must necessarily be like the preference given to one or other part of the soul and its actions over the other; there must be war for the sake of peace, business for the sake of leisure, things useful and necessary for the sake of things honorable.

The law is reason unaffected by desire.

Memory is the scribe of the soul.

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

Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.

The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only one of these is present, we say that the thing is alive, if, for instance, there is intellect or perception or spatial movement and rest or indeed movement connected with nourishment and growth and decay. It is for this reason that all the plants are also held to be alive . . .

Female cats are very Lascivious, and make advances to the male.