I Say That Habit's But A Long

God And Nature Create Nothing That Does Not Fulfill A Purpose

Excellence Is An Art Won By Training And Habituation.

It Is Our Actions And The Soul's Active Exercise Of Its Functions That We Posit (as Being Happiness).

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.

It Has Been Handed Down In Mythical Form From Earliest Times To Posterity, That There Are Gods, And That The Divine (deity) Compasses All Nature. All Beside This Has Been Added, After The Mythical Style, For The Purpose Of Persuading The Multitude, And For The Interests Of The Laws, And The Advantage Of The State.