The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
ARISTOTLEMen acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
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Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
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No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
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The more you know, the more you know you don’t know.
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A friend is a second self.
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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
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What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
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Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
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Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
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Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human.
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Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man.
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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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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.
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