By myth I mean the arrangement of the incidents

...in this way the structure of the universe- I mean, of the heavens and the earth and the whole world- was arranged by one harmony through the blending of the most opposite principles.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

Thus then a single harmony orders the composition of the whole...by the mingling of the most contrary principles.

Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit.

The shape of the heaven is of necessity spherical; for that is the shape most appropriate to its substance and also by nature primary.

It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.