Female cats are very Lascivious, and make advances to the male.
A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle and an end.
The beginning, as the proverb says, is half the whole.
In educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain.
Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action.
The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.
The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.
Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.
People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just.
Greed has no boundaries.
When their adventures do not succeed, however, they run away; but it was the mark of a brave man to face things that are, and seem, terrible for a man, because it is noble to do so and disgraceful not to do so.
The Life of the intellect is the best and pleasantest for man, because the intellect more than anything else is the man. Thus it will be the happiest life as well.
The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.
A good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed.
It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.
Love is the cause of unity in all things.
Life cannot be lived, and understood, simultaneously.
The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is.
For the real difference between humans and other animals is that humans alone have perception of good and evil, just and unjust, etc. It is the sharing of a common view in these matters that makes a household and a state.
To leave the number of births unrestricted, as is done in most states, inevitably causes poverty among the citizens, and poverty produces crime and faction.