Aristotle

Our first presupposition must be that in nature nothing acts on, or is acted on by, any other thing at random, nor may anything come from anything else, unless we mean that it does so in virtue of a concomitant attribute.

Aristotle

People never know each other until they have eaten a certain amount of salt together.

Aristotle

Perception starts with the eye.

Aristotle

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

Aristotle

Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.

Aristotle

Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

Aristotle

Piety requires us to honour truth above our friends.

Aristotle

Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.

Aristotle

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Aristotle

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