Greek - Philosopher | 384 BC - 322 BC
Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
Aristotle
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Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
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Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
TruthTruth IsInitialLaterLeast
Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him.
ManAnimalMemoryOthersCapable
Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.
PersuasionClearlyBeenMostSort
Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
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In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far as possible, before his eyes. In this way, seeing everything with the utmost vividness, as if he were a spectator of the action, he will discover what is in keeping with it, and be most unlikely to overlook inconsistencies.
EyesActionSeeingPlacePossible
The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects - things as they were or are, things as they are said or thought to be, or things as they ought to be. The vehicle of expression is language - either current terms or, it may be, rare words or metaphors.
WordsThoughtLanguageArtistThree
Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
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It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
LifeBestRiseThirstyBanquetNor
A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
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