definition Quotes

Something is infinite if, taking it quantity by quantity, we can always take something outside.

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

The line has magnitude in one way, the plane in two ways, and the solid in three ways, and beyond these there is no other magnitude because the three are all.

PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state, especially of the highest of all. The government is everywhere sovereign in the state, and the constitution is in fact the government.

Time is the measurable unit of movement concerning a before and an after.

There are still two forms besides democracy and oligarchy; one of them is universally recognized and included among the four principal forms of government, which are said to be (1) monarchy, (2) oligarchy, (3) democracy, and (4) the so-called aristocracy... ...

Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources.

Democracy is when the poor, not the wealthy, are the rulers.

We have next to consider the formal definition of virtue.