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Quotation from Parva Naturalia (Short Treatises on Nature) by Aristotle

“The most skilful interpreter of dreams is he who has the faculty of observing resemblances”

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Parva Naturalia (Short Treatises on Nature), On Prophesying by Dreams, Part 2, trans. J. I. Beare (1908)

Because dream images are distorted like reflections in disturbed water, interpretation depends on seeing likenesses.

Citation: "The most skilful interpreter of dreams is he who has the faculty of observing resemblances" — Aristotle, Parva Naturalia (Short Treatises on Nature), On Prophesying by Dreams, Part 2, trans. J. I. Beare (1908). (id aristotle-parva-naturalia-q6)

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