It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

In all things which have a plurality of parts, and which are not a total aggregate but a whole of some sort distinct from the parts, there is some cause.

With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.

Revolutions are effected in two ways, by force and by fraud.

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