It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen.

A friend is another I.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Concerning the generation of animals akin to them, as hornets and wasps, the facts in all cases are similar to a certain extent, but are devoid of the extraordinary features which characterize bees; this we should expect, for they have nothing divine about them as the bees have.

Men become builders by building and lyreplayers by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a questionable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.

One cannot say of something that it is and that it is not in the same respect at the same time.