All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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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Bad men are full of repentance.
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He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
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Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
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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 high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
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Philosophy can make people sick.
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No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
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The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
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You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
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He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
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What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
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Whatever lies within our power to do lies also within our power not to do.
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Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human.
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