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Quotation from Rhetoric by Aristotle

“The body is in its prime from thirty to five-and-thirty; the mind about forty-nine”

Aristotle

Rhetoric, Book II, Ch. 14, trans. W. Rhys Roberts (1924)

The close of the ages-of-life sketches, placing physical and mental maturity at different times.

Citation: "The body is in its prime from thirty to five-and-thirty; the mind about forty-nine" — Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book II, Ch. 14, trans. W. Rhys Roberts (1924). (id aristotle-rhetoric-q10)

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