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.

The continuum is that which is divisible into indivisibles that are infinitely divisible.

There is more both of beauty and of raison d'etre in the works of nature- than in those of art.

Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts.

The same things are best both for individuals and for states, and these are the things which the legislator ought to implant in the minds of his citizens.

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.