To perceive is to suffer.
ARISTOTLEMen acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
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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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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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Happiness is a state of activity.
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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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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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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
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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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Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
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All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world.
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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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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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Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
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