PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Again, it is possible to fail in many ways (for evil belongs to the class of the unlimited and good to that of the limited), while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult—to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult); for these reasons also, then, excess and defect are characteristic of vice, and the mean of virtue; For men are good in but one way, but bad in many.

Xenophanes states that the fire in Lipara once failed for sixteen years, but returned in the seventeenth year. They say that the lava-stream in Etna is neither flaming nor continuous, but returns only after an interval of many years.

A period may be defined as a portion of speech that has in itself a beginning and an end, being at the same time not too big to be taken in at a glance

Men are divided between those who are as thrifty as if they would live forever, and those who are as extravagant as if they were going to die the next day.