All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
ARISTOTLEHappiness belongs to the self-sufficient.
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Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man.
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Philosophy can make people sick.
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A friend is a second self.
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Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.
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It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
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The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
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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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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
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What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
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Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
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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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Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
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The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
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Happiness is a state of activity.
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Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
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Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
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Change in all things is sweet.
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It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.
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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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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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Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
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In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
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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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Bad men are full of repentance.
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Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
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