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"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."
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"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
— Aristotle (Aristotle's Metaphysics)
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"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
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"Happiness depends upon ourselves."
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"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit."
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"Hope is a waking dream."
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"Anyone can become angry. That is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not easy."
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"The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead."
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"Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well."
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"Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all."
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"Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber."
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"To perceive is to suffer."
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"A friend to all is a friend to none."
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"We are what we repeatedly do."
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"Wit is educated insolence."
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"Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny."
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"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous."
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"He who has overcome his fears will truly be free."
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"Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god."
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"The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend."
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"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them."
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"To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, and be nothing."
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"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue and excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence then is not an act, but a habit."
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"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire."
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"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."
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"Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach."
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"Patience is bitter, but it's fruit is sweet."
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"I count him braver who overcomes his
desires than him who conquers his enemies,
for the hardest victory is over self."
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"All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind."
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"The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think."
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"We make war that we may live in peace."
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"Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them."
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"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts."
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"Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot."
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"Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods."
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"Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life."
— Aristotle (Aristotle's Poetics)
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"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal."
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"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."
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"Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form, but with regard to their mode of life."
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"Misfortune shows those who are not really friends."
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"A friend is a second self."
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"All men by nature desire to know."
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"The Law is Reason free from Passion."
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"Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are therir own"
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"Philosophy can make people sick."
— Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics)
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"No great genius is without an admixture of madness."
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"Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain."
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"Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime."
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"Happiness is a state of activity."
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