Greek - Philosopher | 384 BC - 322 BC
Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
Aristotle
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Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
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Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
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No one loves the man whom he fears.
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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.
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Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
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Long-lived persons have one or two lines which extend through the whole hand; short-lived persons have two lines not extending through the whole hand.
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