All human happiness or misery takes the form of action; the end for which we live is a certain kind of action.
With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.
Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.
A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. The story should never be made up of improbable incidents; there should be nothing of the sort in it.
