Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
ARISTOTLEComedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.
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Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
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To perceive is to suffer.
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The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
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No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
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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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He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.
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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
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Wit is educated insolence.
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Philosophy can make people sick.
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Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
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There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
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Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient.
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The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue.
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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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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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To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
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Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
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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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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
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The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
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He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
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The gods too are fond of a joke.
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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
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Change in all things is sweet.
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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
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