Aristotle, Rhetoric, book 1, chapter 9, section 37

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[37] The form of the expression will necessarily be opposite, when the prohibitive has been changed into the non-prohibitive.¹

1 In the first sentence, the statement is imperative, there is a prohibition; in the second, it is a simple affirmative, implying praise. In the one case there is forbidding, in the other not-forbidding, which are opposites.

Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 22, translated by J. H. Freese. Aristotle. Cambridge and London. Harvard University Press; William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.

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