The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
ARISTOTLEThe aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
ARISTOTLEWishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
ARISTOTLEQuality is not an act, it is a habit.
ARISTOTLEIn a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
ARISTOTLEA friend is a second self.
ARISTOTLEComedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.
ARISTOTLEThe gods too are fond of a joke.
ARISTOTLEThe secret to humor is surprise.
ARISTOTLEBad men are full of repentance.
ARISTOTLEHope is a waking dream.
ARISTOTLEProbable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
ARISTOTLEYouth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
ARISTOTLECharacter may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
ARISTOTLEPoverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
ARISTOTLENo one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
ARISTOTLEAll human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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