The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
ARISTOTLEWishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
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To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
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Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
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The more you know, the more you know you don’t know.
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.
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Wit is educated insolence.
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In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
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The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.
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We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.
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He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
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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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Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.
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Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
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The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
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You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
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Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
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Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
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To lead an orchestra, you must turn your back on the crowd.
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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
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Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
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It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
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Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.
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Learning is not child’s play; we cannot learn without pain.
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What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
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