Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
ARISTOTLEYou will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
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Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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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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To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
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Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
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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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A friend is a second self.
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The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
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Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
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Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
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Whatever lies within our power to do lies also within our power not to do.
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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
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Bad men are full of repentance.
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Happiness is a state of activity.
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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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