I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
ARISTOTLELearning is not child’s play; we cannot learn without pain.
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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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Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
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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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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
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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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Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
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Through discipline comes freedom.
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He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
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Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
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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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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 aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
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Whatever lies within our power to do lies also within our power not to do.
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Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
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