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.
ARISTOTLEWishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
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For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
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He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
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The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue.
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Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form, but with regard to their mode of life.
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The more you know, the more you know you don’t know.
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The secret to humor is surprise.
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The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
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Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
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Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
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Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
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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 gods too are fond of a joke.
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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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It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.
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