Comedy Has Had No History,

You Can Never Learn Anything That You Did Not Already Know

The Goodness Or Badness, Justice Or Injustice, Of Laws Varies Of Necessity With The Constitution Of States. This, However, Is Clear, That The Laws Must Be Adapted To The Constitutions. But If So, True Forms Of Government Will Of Necessity Have Just Laws, And Perverted Forms Of Government Will Have Unjust Laws.

The Greatest Virtues Are Those Which Are Most Useful To Other Persons.

Temperance And Bravery, Then, Are Ruined By Excess And Deficiency, But Preserved By The Mean.

As For The Story, Whether The Poet Takes It Ready Made Or Constructs It For Himself, He Should First Sketch Its General Outline, And Then Fill In The Episodes And Amplify In Detail.