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Poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
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He who is by nature not his own but another's man is by nature a slave.
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The family is the association established by nature for the supply of man's everyday wants.
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Nature flies from the infinite, for the infinite is unending or imperfect, and Nature ever seeks an end.
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But that the unequal should be given to equals, and the unlike to those who are like, is contrary to nature, and nothing which is contrary to nature is good.
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Further, the state is by nature clearly prior to the family and to the individual, since the whole is of necessity prior to the part; for example, if the whole body be destroyed, there will be no foot or hand, except in an equivocal sense, as we might speak of a stone hand; for when destroyed the hand will be no better than that. But things are defined by their working and power; and we ought not to say that they are the same when they no longer have their proper quality, but only that they have the same name.
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All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves; and above all others the sense of sight. For not only with a view to action, but even when we are not going to do anything, we prefer sight to almost everything else. The reason is that this, most of all the senses, makes us know and brings to light many differences between things.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
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383 BC
Died:
321 BC
(aged 62)
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