The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
ARISTOTLEThe aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
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Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
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Philosophy can make people sick.
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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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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
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Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
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Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
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Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
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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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The secret to humor is surprise.
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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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A friend is a second self.
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Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
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