Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.

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

In the many forms of government which have sprung up there has always been an acknowledgement of justice and proportionate equality, although mankind fail in attaining them, as indeed I have already explained. Democracy, for example, arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom.

For we do not think that we know a thing until we are acquainted with its primary conditions or first principles, and have carried our analysis as far as its simplest elements.

The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

The final cause, then, produces motion through being loved.