Greek philosopher (384 B.C. - 322 B.C.)
Whoever, therefore, is unfit to live in a commonwealth, is above or below humanity.
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Politics
Dramatic action, therefore, is not with a view to the representation of character: character comes in as subsidiary to the actions. Hence the incidents and the plot are the end of a tragedy; and the end is the chief thing of all.
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Poetics
Thought is required wherever a statement is proved, or, it may be, a general truth enunciated.
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Poetics
That which is a common concern is very generally neglected. The energies of man are excited by that which depends on himself alone, and of which he only is to reap the whole profit or glory.
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Politics
Tragedy advanced by slow degrees; each new element that showed itself was in turn developed. Having passed through many changes, it found its natural form, and there it stopped.
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Poetics
The many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little.
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Politics
Reason ... governs like a just and lawful prince, and the little community of man is thus held together and sustained.
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Politics
Happiness is a thing which calls for honor rather than for praise.
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Nicomachean Ethics
We ought to be able to persuade on opposite sides of a question; as also we ought in the case of arguing by syllogism: not that we should practice both, for it is not right to persuade to what is bad; but in order that the bearing of the case may not escape us, and that when another makes an unfair use of these reasonings, we may be able to solve them.
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Rhetoric
The law itself is accused of iniquity, and impeached, like the orators of Athens when they have persuaded the assembly to pass unjust decrees.
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Politics
In the case of some people, not even if we had the most accurate scientific knowledge, would it be easy to persuade them were we to address them through the medium of that knowledge; for a scientific discourse, it is the privilege of education to appreciate, and it is impossible that this should extend to the multitude.
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Rhetoric
He, therefore, who first collected societies, was the greatest benefactor of mankind.
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Politics
A statement is persuasive and credible either because it is directly self-evident or because it appears to be proved from other statements that are so. In either case it is persuasive because there is somebody whom it persuades.
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Rhetoric
Bad men are full of repentance.
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Nicomachean Ethics
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
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Nicomachean Ethics
For in man, and in man alone, owing to is erect attitude, the upper part of the body is turned toward the upper part of the universe; while in other animals it is turned neither to this nor to the lower aspects, but in a direction midway between the two.
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On Youth & Old Age, Life & Death
Novices in the art attain to finish of diction and precision of portraiture before they can construct the plot.
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Poetics
Man is armed with craft and courage, which, untamed by justice, he will most wickedly pervert, and become at once the most impious and the fiercest of monsters.
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Politics
Tragedy--as also Comedy--was at first mere improvisation.
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Poetics
Government and subjection, then, are things useful and necessary; they prevail everywhere, in animated as well as in brute matter; from their first origin, some natures are formed to command, and others to obey; the kinds of government and subjection varying with the differences of their objects, but all equally useful for their respective ends.
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Politics