Whatever lies within our power to do lies also within our power not to do.
ARISTOTLEThe aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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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 secret to humor is surprise.
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.
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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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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
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It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
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Memory is the scribe of the soul
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
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Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
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He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.
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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 aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
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Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient.
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He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
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Nature does nothing uselessly.
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Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Learning is not child’s play; we cannot learn without pain.
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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
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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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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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Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
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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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