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Aristotle

Rhetoric Section 10

Section 680 of 882

Canonical reference 2.8.10

Ancient Greek

ὧν δʼ ἡ τύχη αἰτία κακῶν ἀφιλία, ὀλιγοφιλία (διὸ καὶ τὸ διασπᾶσθαι ἀπὸ φίλων καὶ συνήθων ἐλεεινόν), αἶσχος, ἀσθένεια, ἀναπηρία, καὶ τὸ ὅθεν προσῆκεν ἀγαθόν τι ὑπάρξαι κακόν τι συμβῆναι,

English

J. H. Freese, 1926

The evils for which fortune is responsible are lack of friends, or few friends (wherefore it is pitiable to be torn away from friends and intimates), ugliness, weakness, mutilation; if some misfortune comes to pass from a quarter whence one might have reasonably expected something good;

French AI-generated translation, non-official

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

Les maux dont la fortune est responsable sont l’absence ou le petit nombre d’amis, d’où le caractère pitoyable d’être arraché à ses amis et à ses proches, la laideur, la faiblesse, la mutilation ; qu’un malheur survienne d’une source dont on pouvait raisonnablement attendre quelque bien ;

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