Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
ARISTOTLEThe energy of the mind is the essence of life.
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If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.
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Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
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To perceive is to suffer.
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The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue.
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Whatever lies within our power to do lies also within our power not to do.
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.
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No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man.
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Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.
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Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
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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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The gods too are fond of a joke.
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Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
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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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