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All that is done on compulsion is bitterness unto the soul. All
All that is done on compulsion is bitterness unto the soul. All acts of concentration, strong effort, and strain are necessarily painful; they all inv...

The act of ‘wrong-doing’ is injury voluntarily inflicted
The act of ‘wrong-doing’ is injury voluntarily inflicted contrary to law. ‘Law’ is either special or general. By special law I mean that writt...

We must also take into account the nature of our particular
We must also take into account the nature of our particular audience when making a speech of praise; for, as Socrates used to say, it is not difficult...

Among those that are most properly called qualities a condition of
Among those that are most properly called qualities a condition of a person that is in virtue of which he is said to have such and such disposition or...

Of all plots and actions the episodic are the worst. I call a plot
Of all plots and actions the episodic are the worst. I call a plot episodic in which the episodes or acts succeed one another without probable or nece...

Comedy is, as we have said, an imitation of characters of a lower
Comedy is, as we have said, an imitation of characters of a lower type-not, however, in the full sense of the word, the ludicrous being merely a subdi...

Imitation is one instinct of our nature. Poetry in general seems
Imitation is one instinct of our nature. Poetry in general seems to have sprung from two causes, each of them lying deep in our nature. First, the ins...

The best life, both for individuals and states, is the life of
The best life, both for individuals and states, is the life of virtue, when virtue has external goods enough for the performance of the good actions. ...

A well-ordered constitution should decide on the elements of
A well-ordered constitution should decide on the elements of setting who or what deliberates about public affairs including the mode of its elections,...