The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend.

Whereas happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it, the various qualities of men are clearly the reason why there are various kinds of states and many forms of government; for different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

One citizen differs from another, but the salvation of the community is the common business of them all. This community is the constitution; the virtue of the citizen must therefore be relative to the constitution of which he is a member.

The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.

What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.