Wit is educated insolence.
ARISTOTLEPoliticians 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 secret to humor is surprise.
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The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
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Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
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Hope is a waking dream.
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The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
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Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
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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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We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.
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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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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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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
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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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The gods too are fond of a joke.
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