Whatever lies within our power to do lies also within our power not to do.
ARISTOTLEMen are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
More Aristotle Quotes
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Nature does nothing uselessly.
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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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Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation.
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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 educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.
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There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
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Learning is not child’s play; we cannot learn without pain.
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Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
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In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
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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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Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient.
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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.
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In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
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We make war that we may live in peace.
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The secret to humor is surprise.
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Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
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Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
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Hope is a waking dream.
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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
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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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Memory is the scribe of the soul
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Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
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