Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.
ARISTOTLEThe energy of the mind is the essence of life.
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Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
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He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.
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Hope is a waking dream.
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Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
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Memory is the scribe of the soul
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Wit is educated insolence.
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The gods too are fond of a joke.
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Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
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What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
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Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
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The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
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Wise men speak when they have something to say, fools speak because they have to say something.
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It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
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If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.
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Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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All men by nature desire knowledge.
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Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
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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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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
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The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue.
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Learning is not child’s play; we cannot learn without pain.
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