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Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you. Aristophanes
You Eyes Will Mouth See Open Send Your Zeus Shut
Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole. Aristophanes
Love Love Is Pursuit Simply Name Whole Desire
Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof? Aristophanes
You Argument Believe Proof Surely Gods Your
High thoughts must have high language. Aristophanes
Thoughts Language High Must
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. Aristotle
Great Great City City Confounded
Most people would rather give than get affection. Aristotle
People Affection Would Give Rather Most Than Get
Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art. Aristotle
Art Other Defined Case Given Faculty Observing Any May Rhetoric Available Means Persuasion Function
The eyes of some persons are large, others small, and others of a moderate size; the last-mentioned are the best. And some eyes are projecting, some deep-set, and some moderate, and those which are deep-set have the most acute vision in all animals; the middle position is a sign of the best disposition. Aristotle
Best Eyes Vision Animals Disposition Others Projecting Those Sign Some Small Most Moderate Middle Size Which Persons Large Acute Position
Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. Aristotle
Pleasures Temperance Regard Mean
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. Aristotle
Matter Power Impress Sense Wax Way Takes Piece Without Itself Iron Gold Sensible Which Forms Things Receiving
But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul. Aristotle
Time Change Soul Impossible Mind Nothing Unless Only Count Qualified Attribute Without Exist Which
To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world. Aristotle
Knowledge Soul World Difficult Assured About Attain Most Any Things Difficult Things
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. Aristotle
Eyes Will Poet Before Action Everything Unlikely Way Out Plot Possible Seeing Proper Scene Constructing He Most Overlook Were Discover His His Way Diction As Far As Place Far Should Working Utmost Keeping Spectator
No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. Aristotle
World Other Would Having No-One Condition Existence Friendless Choose Things
It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition. Aristotle
Property Business Better Men Disposition Benevolent Clearly Private Common Legislator Create Should Use Special
Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. Aristotle
Confidence Courage Fear Regard Mean
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim. Aristotle
Art Good Thought Action Every Aim Inquiry Rightly All Things Some Similarly Been Which Choice Reason Things
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars. Aristotle
Nature History Philosophic Statements Those Something Rather More Poetry Since Import Than Whereas Hence Universal
For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy. Aristotle
Time Day Man Happy Blessed Too Summer One Day Make Does Nor Short Short Time Swallow
He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature. Aristotle
Nature Enough Apprehend He Another Reason Who Therefore Slave
Long-lived persons have one or two lines which extend through the whole hand; short-lived persons have two lines not extending through the whole hand. Aristotle
One Or Two Through Lines Hand Short-Lived Which Persons Whole Extend Extending Two
Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. Aristotle
Politics Good Man Science Must End Therefore
Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time. Chilon
Time Pain Other All-Time Loss Dishonest Gain Prefer Moment Brings
The anchovy which is found in the sea at Athens, men despise on account of its abundance and say that it is a poor man's fish; but in other cities, they prize it above everything, even where it is far inferior to the Attic anchovy. Chrysippus
Man Men Other Despise Everything Say Cities Athens Above Abundance Attic Fish Account Inferior Prize Where Which Poor Far Sea Even Found
When through the power of sight we see white, that which comes about in the soul through the act of seeing is a modification. And on the basis of this modification, we are able to say that the white which is affecting us exists. Chrysippus
Soul Power White Say Sight See Able Seeing About Through Affecting Exists Which Modification Us Act Basis
I myself think that the wise man meddles little or not at all in affairs and does his own things. Chrysippus
Myself Wise Man Wise Man Own Think Does Affairs His Little Things
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