Misfortune Shows Those Who Are Not Really

To The Size Of The State There Is A Limit, As There Is To Plants, Animals And Implements, For None Of These Retain Their Facility When They Are Too Large.

If Then, As We Say, Good Craftsmen Look To The Mean As They Work, And If Virtue, Like Nature, Is More Accurate And Better Than Any Form Of Art, It Will Follow That Virtue Has The Quality Of Hitting The Mean. I Refer To Moral Virtue [not Intellectual], For This Is Concerned With Emotions And Actions, In Which One Can Have Excess Or Deficiency Or A Due Mean.

Tragedy Is An Imitation Not Of Men But Of A Life, An Action

All Friendly Feelings Toward Others Come From The Friendly Feelings A Person Has For Himself.

The Energy Or Active Exercise Of The Mind Constitutes Life.