Tag: Aristotle
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Some kinds of animals burrow in the ground; others do not. Some animals are nocturnal, as the owl and the bat; others use the hours of daylight. There are tame animals and wild animals. Man and the mule are always tame; the leopard and the wolf are invariably wild, and others, as the elephant, are easily tamed.
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No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
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Law is mind without reason.
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A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.
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What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
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Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
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The law is reason, free from passion.
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Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
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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.
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