So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
We must become just be doing just acts.
A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.
The law is reason unaffected by desire.
There is simple ignorance, which is the source of lighter offenses, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by a conceit of wisdom.