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Aristotle

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Quotes by Aristotle

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."
"Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well."
"Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular."
"Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well."
"To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man."
"The female is, as it were, a mutilated male, and the catamenia are semen, only not pure; for there is only one thing they have not in them, the principle of soul."
"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."