The souls ability to nourish itself lies in the heart.

It is the activity of the intellect that constitutes complete human happiness - provided it be granted a complete span of life, for nothing that belongs to happiness can be incomplete.

Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.

PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.

In part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and in part it imitates nature.

Since we think we understand when we know the explanation, and there are four types of explanation (one, what it is to be a thing; one, that if certain things hold it is necessary that this does; another, what initiated the change; and fourth, the aim), all these are proved through the middle term.

For imitation is natural to man from his infancy. Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and acquires his rudiments of knowledge in this way; besides, the delight in it is universal.