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What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

friends best-friends soul spirit

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

Aristotle

work labor

We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.

Aristotle

leisure relaxation

It is better to rise from life as from a banquet - neither thirsty nor drunken.

Aristotle

moderation self-control

The distinction between historian and poet is not in the one writing prose and the other verse... the one describes the thing that has been, and the other a kind of thing that might be. Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

Aristotle | On Poetics

poetry

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

sanity soul

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Aristotle

art artist

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