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THE TALMUD Who is wise? One who learns from all.
THE TALMUD The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.
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THE TALMUD No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.
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THE TALMUD Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.
THE TALMUD This is the punishment of a liar: he is not believed, even when he speaks the truth.
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THE TALMUD A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed...
THE TALMUD Thy friend has a friend, and thy friend's friend has a friend; be discreet.
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ARISTOTLE There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
ARISTOTLE Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
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ARISTOTLE A friend to all is a friend to none.
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ARISTOTLE Man is by nature a civic animal.
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ARISTOTLE No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature.
ARISTOTLE Youth is easily deceived, because it is quick to hope.
ARISTOTLE The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
ARISTOTLE Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
ARISTOTLE Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
ARISTOTLE Hope is a waking dream. -Aristotle.
ARISTOTLE To live happily is an inward power of the soul. -Aristotle.
ARISTOTLE No great genius is without an admixture of madness.
ARISTOTLE Beauty is the gift of God.
ARISTOTLE What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.
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ARISTOTLE Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
ARISTOTLE Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
ARISTOTLE No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
ARISTOTLE Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.
ARISTOTLE To perceive is to suffer.
ARISTOTLE What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
ARISTOTLE Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
ARISTOTLE All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires ...
ARISTOTLE It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
ARISTOTLE Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right de...
ARISTOTLE Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only ga...
ARISTOTLE With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbab...
ARISTOTLE For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
ARISTOTLE The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another,...
ARISTOTLE Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
ARISTOTLE Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.
ARISTOTLE Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
ARISTOTLE Without friends no one would choose to live.
ARISTOTLE Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
ARISTOTLE A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
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ARISTOTLE We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by perfor...
ARISTOTLE Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing...
ARISTOTLE The Good of man is the active exercise of his souls faculties in conformity with excellence or virtu...
ARISTOTLE When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite ...
ARISTOTLE The argument of Alcidamas: Everyone honours the wise. Thus the Parians have honoured Archilochus, in...
ARISTOTLE One thing alone not even God can do,To make undone whatever hath been done.
ARISTOTLE That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it. Every one thinks ch...
ARISTOTLE Obstinate people can be divded into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.
ARISTOTLE We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impres...
ARISTOTLE He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must b...
ARISTOTLE Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live ...
ARISTOTLE Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal and equals that they may be superior. Such is the s...
ARISTOTLE In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interests are at stake.
ARISTOTLE For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluct...
ARISTOTLE The end of labor is to gain leisure.
ARISTOTLE We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have...
ARISTOTLE No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.
ARISTOTLE Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.
ARISTOTLE Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
ARISTOTLE Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
ARISTOTLE What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, n...
ARISTOTLE Tragedy is a representation of action that is worthy of serious attention, complete in itself and of...
ARISTOTLE The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.
ARISTOTLE Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.
ARISTOTLE All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
ARISTOTLE Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
ARISTOTLE The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
ARISTOTLE The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
ARISTOTLE Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
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ARISTOTLE The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection Are that a thing is your own and that i...
ARISTOTLE Most people would rather give than get affection.
ARISTOTLE Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.
ARISTOTLE The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.
ARISTOTLE They Young People have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its ne...
ARISTOTLE So it is naturally with the male and the female; the one is superior, the other inferior; the one go...
ARISTOTLE Memory is the scribe of the soul.
ARISTOTLE No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
ARISTOTLE We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
ARISTOTLE It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature...
ARISTOTLE No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
ARISTOTLE The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures no...
ARISTOTLE Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.
ARISTOTLE Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.
ARISTOTLE All men by nature desire to know.
ARISTOTLE Nature does nothing uselessly.
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ARISTOTLE The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, pr...
ARISTOTLE It is better to rise from life as from a banquet -- neither thirsty nor drunken.
ARISTOTLE It's best to rise from life like a banquet, neither thirsty or drunken.
ARISTOTLE What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
ARISTOTLE Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
ARISTOTLE It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such acti...
ARISTOTLE Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his g...
ARISTOTLE First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary mean...
ARISTOTLE There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
ARISTOTLE Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely...
ARISTOTLE Bad men are full of repentance.
ARISTOTLE Hope is the dream of a waking man.
ARISTOTLE It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
ARISTOTLE The law is reason, free from passion.
ARISTOTLE It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.
ARISTOTLE The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
ARISTOTLE Cruel is the strife of brothers.
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ARISTOTLE The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those sta...
ARISTOTLE A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
ARISTOTLE This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suff...
ARISTOTLE Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.
ARISTOTLE It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to th...
ARISTOTLE Homer has taught all other poets the are of telling lies skillfully.
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ARISTOTLE If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accord...
ARISTOTLE Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
ARISTOTLE Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it...
ARISTOTLE To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men...
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ARISTOTLE Anyone can become angry - that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, ...
ARISTOTLE We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the r...
ARISTOTLE Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.
ARISTOTLE Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
ARISTOTLE For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.
ARISTOTLE How God ever brings like to like.
ARISTOTLE There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the ...
ARISTOTLE Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
ARISTOTLE The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.
ARISTOTLE Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those...
ARISTOTLE A friend is a second self.
ARISTOTLE Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.
ARISTOTLE Math is like love -- a simple idea but it can get complicated.
ARISTOTLE To die will be an awfully big adventure.
ARISTOTLE The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he c...
ARISTOTLE The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.
ARISTOTLE We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may hav...
ARISTOTLE There are some who, because the point is the limit and extreme of the line, the line of the plane, a...
ARISTOTLE Most people would rather give than get affection.
ARISTOTLE One swallow does not make spring.
ARISTOTLE The mother of revolution and crime is poverty
ARISTOTLE It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
ARISTOTLE The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the gr...
ARISTOTLE We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We shou...
ARISTOTLE Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence.
ARISTOTLE Wicked men obey out of fear; good men, out of love.
ARISTOTLE To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.
ARISTOTLE When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt
ARISTOTLE The search for truth is in one way hard and in another way easy, for it is evident that no one can m...
ARISTOTLE I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest vic...
ARISTOTLE Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the nonperformance of base o...
ARISTOTLE Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
ARISTOTLE Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
ARISTOTLE We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.
ARISTOTLE Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue ...
ARISTOTLE The price of justice is eternal publicity.
ARISTOTLE You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.
ARISTOTLE If at first the idea is absurd, then there is no hope for it.
ARISTOTLE It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the ...
ARISTOTLE All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason...
ARISTOTLE Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to w...
ARISTOTLE Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the...
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