The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.

It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.

To leave the number of births unrestricted, as is done in most states, inevitably causes poverty among the citizens, and poverty produces crime and faction.

The energy or active exercise of the mind constitutes life.

For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who do not effect it miss their mark, and it is in this that a good constitution differs from a bad one.

[this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it

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