Aristotle Quotes on History
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The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men.
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. (1451b6)
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It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
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This was for years the standard translation of Aristotle. It was reprinted in Great Books of the Western World (1952).