Aristotle quote: "De lo que hemos dicho se desprende que la tarea del poeta es describir no lo que ha acontecido, sino lo que podría haber ocurrido, esto es, tanto lo que es posible como probable o necesario. La distinción entre el historiador y el poeta no consiste en que uno escriba en prosa y el otro en verso; se podrá trasladar al verso la obra de Herodoto, y ella seguiría siendo una clase de historia. La diferencia reside en que uno relata lo que ha sucedido, y el otro lo que podría haber acontecido. De aquí que la poesía sea más filosófica y de mayor dignidad que la historia."

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