A Promise Made Must Be A Promise

Definition Of Tragedy: A Hero Destroyed By The Excess Of His Virtues

A Poet's Object Is Not To Tell What Actually Happened But What Could Or Would Happen Either Probably Or Inevitably.... For This Reason Poetry Is Something More Scientific And Serious Than History, Because Poetry Tends To Give General Truths While History Gives Particular Facts.

Courage Is The First Virtue That Makes All Other Virtues Possible.

It May Be Argued That Peoples For Whom Philosophers Legislate Are Always Prosperous.

Opinion Involves Belief (for Without Belief In What We Opine We Cannot Have An Opinion), And In The Brutes Though We Often Find Imagination We Never Find Belief.