The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
ARISTOTLEMen are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
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The more you know, the more you know you don’t know.
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It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.
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To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
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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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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
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Through discipline comes freedom.
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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
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He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
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A friend is a second self.
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To perceive is to suffer.
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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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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.
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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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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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