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Aristotle | history
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.
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Aristotle | history
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
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Aristotle | happiness
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
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Aristotle | happiness
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
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Aristotle | great
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.