Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
ARISTOTLEAll human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
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To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
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Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
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The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue.
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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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Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient.
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It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.
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The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
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Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
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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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Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
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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 roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
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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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