5 Aristotle Quotes on History

Aristotle quotes on history

35. The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men.

68. Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. (1451b6)

112. It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

128. Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

174. This was for years the standard translation of Aristotle. It was reprinted in Great Books of the Western World (1952).