Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it.
AristotleAccordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts.
AristotleThis world is inescapably linked to the motions of the worlds above. All power in this world is ruled by these options.
AristotleNeither should we forget the mean, which at the present day is lost sight of in perverted forms of government; for many practices which appear to be democratical are the ruin of democracies, . . Those who think that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state.
Aristotle