Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.

The best way to avoid envy is to deserve the success you get.

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

Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.

The same thing may have all the kinds of causes, e.g. the moving cause of a house is the art or the builder, the final cause is the function it fulfils, the matter is earth and stones, and the form is the definitory formula.

...perhaps there is some element of good even in the simple act of living, so long as the evils of existence do not preponderate too heavily.

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.