The ideal man takes joy in doing favors for others.

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.

Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.

The citizens begin by giving up some part of the constitution, and so with greater ease the government change something else which is a little more important, until they have undermined the whole fabric of the state.

The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.

Here and elsewhere we shall not obtain the best insight into things until we actually see them growing from the beginning.

To be angry is easy. But to be angry with the right man at the right time and in the right manner, that is not easy.