While fiction is often impossible, it should not be implausible.
Revolutions are effected in two ways, by force and by fraud.
The happy man . . . will be always or at least most often employed in doing and contemplating the things that are in conformity with virtue. And he will bear changes of fortunes most nobly, and with perfect propriety in every way.
Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action
If the hammer and the shuttle could move themselves, slavery would be unnecessary.
Happiness is something final and complete in itself, as being the aim and end of all practical activities whatever .... Happiness then we define as the active exercise of the mind in conformity with perfect goodness or virtue.