Pappus Alexandr., Collectio , lib. viii, prop. Man is by nature a political animal. Politics , i. A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . Poetics , 6.
Poetry is something more philosophic and or graver import than history.
Poetics , 9. A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. Original ascribed to Aristotle Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo. Confessions , bk. 24 Audi partem alteram.