Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
ARISTOTLEHappiness belongs to the self-sufficient.
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Philosophy can make people sick.
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No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
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Hope is a waking dream.
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.
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Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.
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Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
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Happiness is a state of activity.
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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
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Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
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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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Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
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It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.
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The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
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