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Aristotle

Rhetoric Section 20

Section 261 of 882

Canonical reference 1.7.20

Ancient Greek

καὶ ὧν αἱ ἐπιστῆμαι καλλίους ἢ σπουδαιότεραι, καὶ τὰ πράγματα καλλίω καὶ σπουδαιότερα· ὡς γὰρ ἔχει ἡ ἐπιστήμη, καὶ τὸ ἀληθές· κελεύει δὲ τὸ αὑτῆς ἑκάστη. καὶ τῶν σπουδαιοτέρων δὲ καὶ καλλιόνων αἱ ἐπιστῆμαι ἀνάλογον διὰ τὸ αὐτό.

English

J. H. Freese, 1926

And when the sciences are nobler and more dignified, the nobler and more dignified are their subjects; for as is the science, so is the truth which is its object, and each science prescribes that which properly belongs to it; and, by analogy, the nobler and more dignified the objects of a science, the nobler and more dignified is the science itself, for the same reasons.

French AI-generated translation, non-official

Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-13

Et lorsque les sciences sont plus nobles et plus dignes, leurs objets sont eux aussi plus nobles et plus dignes. Car telle est la science, telle est la vérité qui en est l’objet, et chaque science prescrit ce qui lui appartient en propre. Par analogie, plus les objets d’une science sont nobles et dignes, plus la science elle-même est noble et digne, pour les mêmes raisons.

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