Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to amuse oneself.

Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.

Now, the causes being four, it is the business of the student of nature to know about them all, and if he refers his problems back to all of them, he will assign the "why" in the way proper to his science-the matter, the form, the mover, that for the sake of which.

We, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of them, in motion.

The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.

Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.