Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.

For often, when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream.

Women should marry when they are about eighteen years of age, and men at seven and thirty; then they are in the prime of life, and the decline in the powers of both will coincide.

Maybe crying is a means of cleaning yourself out emotionally. Or maybe it's your last resort; the only way to express yourself when words fail, the same as when you were a baby and had no words.

While fiction is often impossible, it should not be implausible.

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.