Wit is educated insolence.

ἡ γὰρ εὐτραπελία πεπαιδευμένη ὕβρις ἐστίν.

Aristotle

Rhetoric

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Wit Being funny

Author

Aristotle

Source

Rhetoric

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

Greek

Time

322 BC 320s BC 4th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Occupation

Philosopher Writer

From

Greece Europe Ancient Greece

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Original Citation

Aristotle. Rhetoric. 322 BC, bk. 2, pt. 12, sect. 16.

Current Citation

Aristotle. The Art of Rhetoric, translated by Robin Waterfield. Oxford University Press, 2018, bk. 2, pt. 12, sect. 16.

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Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.

Aristotle

Politics

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Politics
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Time
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Era
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Aristotle. Politics. 4th century BC, bk. 4.

Current Citation

Aristotle. Politics, translated by R. F. Stalley and Sir Ernest Barker. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 4.

Another quote from Classical antiquity

Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

God

Exodus 20:12

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Speaker
God
Source
Exodus The Bible
Medium
Scripture
Genre
Religious literature
Statement Type
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Language
Hebrew
Time
1405 BC 1400s BC 15th century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
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Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Exodus 20:12).

Another quote originally in Greek

How many things I can do without!

Socrates

Quoted in The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, by Diogenes Laërtius

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Author

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Source
Socrates The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
Genre
Biography
Language
Greek
Time
399 BC 390s BC 4th century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
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Socrates. Quoted in Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laertius. c. 240 AD, bk. 2, ch. 5.

Current Citation

Socrates. Quoted in The Lives of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laërtius, translated by Pamela Mensch, edited by James Miller. Oxford University Press, 2018, bk. 2, ch. 5.