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Quotation from Rhetoric by Aristotle
“Fear may be defined as a pain or disturbance due to a mental picture of some destructive or painful evil in the future”
Rhetoric, Book II, Ch. 5, trans. W. Rhys Roberts (1924)
Fear is tied to imagination of a coming harm, which a speaker can heighten or dispel.
Citation: "Fear may be defined as a pain or disturbance due to a mental picture of some destructive or painful evil in the future" — Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book II, Ch. 5, trans. W. Rhys Roberts (1924). (id aristotle-rhetoric-q8)
