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Rhetoric

Rhetoric

AristotleOriginal title Ῥητορική

Aristotle's Rhetoric is an ancient Greek treatise on the art of persuasion, dating from the 4th century BCE. The English title varies: typically it is titled Rhetoric, the Art of Rhetoric, On Rhetoric, or a Treatise on Rhetoric.

“Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.”

Aristotle Rhetoric

Book I, 1369a.5
Rhetoric
Variant: All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire
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“It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason, when the use of reason is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs.”

Aristotle Rhetoric

Book I, 1355b.1
Rhetoric

“Wit is cultured insolence.”

Aristotle Rhetoric

Book II, 1389b.11
Rhetoric

“It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.”

Aristotle Rhetoric

Book II, 1395b.27
Rhetoric

“Evils draw men together.”

Aristotle Rhetoric

Book I, 1362b.39: quoting a proverb
Rhetoric

“The young have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things—and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning…. All their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything; they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.”

Aristotle Rhetoric

Book II, 1389a.31
Rhetoric

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