True happiness comes from gaining insight and growing into your best possible self. Otherwise all you're having is immediate gratification pleasure, which is fleeting and doesn't grow you as a person.

We may assume the superiority ceteris paribus of the demonstration which derives from fewer postulates or hypotheses - in short, from fewer premises.

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

Man by Nature desires to know.

The purpose of art is to represent the meaning of things. This represents the true reality, not external aspects.

In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state.

And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.